NH Healthy Climate Past Events

Elizabeth Sawin is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Climate Interactive and an expert on solutions that address climate change while also improving health, well-being, equity, and economic vitality, and she is the originator of the term ‘multisolving’ to describe such win-win-win solutions. Beth writes and speaks about multisolving, climate change, and leadership based on systems thinking to local, national, and international audiences. Her work has been published in Non-Profit Quarterly, The Sandford Social Innovation Review, U. S. News, The Daily Climate, System Dynamics Review, and more. She has trained and mentored global sustainability leaders in the Donella Meadows Fellows Program and provided systems thinking training to both Ashoka and Dalai Lama Fellows.

Robert McLellan, MD, Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, Community and Family Medicine, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, will introduce Dr Sawin and moderate the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association.

Susan Anenberg is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and of Global Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. She is also the Director of the GW Climate and Health Institute.

Laura Paulin, MD MHS, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Geisel School of Medicine will introduce Dr. Anenberg and moderate the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by Breathe NH and NH Public Health Association.

Dr. Jonathan E. Slutzman is the Director of the Center for the Environment and Health and the Medical Director for Environmental Sustainability at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He holds a BSE in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University, an Intern Engineer certificate from the State of New York, and an MD with distinction in disaster medicine from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Prior to a career in medicine, Dr. Slutzman was a consulting environmental engineer, completing projects in a variety of areas within environmental, health, and safety assessment. These included industrial facility audits, commercial and industrial site assessments, environmental life-cycle impact assessments, and disaster management exercises. He has completed work on medicine and nuclear war, suburban flood hydrology, health care cost modeling, and environmental life-cycle assessment of health care processes. His academic focus is on the costs, both financial and environmental, of health care. He is a founding member and chair of the Mass General Brigham Clinician Sustainability Group, a past chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Climate Change and Health Interest Group, on the advisory committee of the Health Care Without Harm Physician Network, and a founding member of the MGH Executive Sustainability Committee and Mass General Brigham Climate and Sustainability Leadership Council.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Medical Society and the NH Public Health Association.

Edward Maibach, PhD, University Professor, Department of Communication, Director, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University

Presented in collaboration with the NH Public Health Association

Former VT Governor Howard Dean will participate in a panel discussion moderated by NH State Senator/Dr Tom Sherman on how policy makers, elected officials, and frankly all healthcare workers can most effectively message climate and health based on current climate communications research.

NH State Rep/Dr William Marsh and NH former State Rep Polly Campion RN will be panel members, as will Dr. Edward Maibach, University Professor and Director of George Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication and Dr Robert Gould, Strategic Communications Director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health.

Governor Howard Dean is a Senior Advisor in the Public Policy and Regulation practice at Dentons. He focuses on health care, education and energy issues, as well as providing expertise derived from his extensive experience in public office.

A recognized thought-leader in health care reform, Governor Dean works with clients to navigate complicated regulations and political challenges in both the private and public sectors. Through partnering industry with business and community interests he is at the forefront of promoting high quality and affordable health care while supporting innovation. Respected for his fiscally moderate policies as Governor, he understands first-hand the severe budget constraints that are challenging state and municipal governments. With an extensive set of contacts nationally, Governor Dean is uniquely positioned to develop partnerships between industry stakeholders and local governments. Governor Dean comes to Dentons after serving as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, where he created and implemented the “50 State Strategy”, encouraging the cultivation of candidates in every state at every level, rather than solely the traditionally democratic-leaning states. Governor Dean began his life in politics in 1982 when he was elected to the Vermont State Legislature. He transitioned from a practicing physician to a full-time career in public service when he became Governor of Vermont in 1991. Governor Dean raised his profile in the state, culminating in 12 years of service as Vermont’s governor - the second longest serving in Vermont's history. He was known for his fiscal responsibility as well as his efforts in health care reform. Respected on both sides of the political aisle, Governor Dean served as chairman of the National Governors' Association, the Democratic Governors' Association, as well as the New England Governors' Conference while serving as Governor. Governor Dean left office in Vermont to run for President in 2003 where he implemented innovative fundraising strategies such as use of the internet, pioneering techniques used by both parties in the 2008 election.

This event is co-sponsored by the Vermont Climate and Health Alliance, New Hampshire Medical Society, NH Public Health Association, NH Nurses Association, and the NH Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.

Neal C. Hogan PhD is the author of Leading on Climate Change: How Healthcare Leaders Stop Global Warming coming from Tilly Press in March 2022. Neal also serves as Chairman of the Healthcare Climate ActionWorks, a firm dedicated to researching and sharing best practices in emissions reductions, and to helping health systems implement climate actions with an ROI. For 30 years Neal has been an advisor to health system leaders, and he has been a contributor to the climate action group 350.org for over a decade. As Managing Director at the Advisory Board Company, and then at BDC Advisors, Neal worked with hundreds of organizations to improve performance on initiatives ranging from reducing medical errors to increasing surgical throughput. He has developed strategies for organizations that include Mass General Brigham, Duke Medicine, Providence Health and Services, Common Spirit, and the University of Chicago. Neal serves on the board of the non-profit INTEGRIS Health which operates 9 hospitals in Oklahoma. He received his PhD in the History of Science from Harvard University. He is the author of numerous publications, starting with his book Unhealed Wounds: A History of Medical Malpractice. Neal lives with his family in a solar powered home in New Hampshire. He is a member of the Advisory Board of NH Healthcare Workers for Climate Action.

Seddon Savage, MD, Member, Board of Directors, NH HWCA will introduce Dr. Hogan and moderate the Q&A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association and NH Medical Society.