Climate Change, COVID, and Health Disparities

This online webinar directed toward physicians and medical students will focus on climate change as both a rural and urban health threat and opportunity, and how health professionals can use lessons learned from this pandemic to address both climate change and racial and class-based injustice, thereby building a healthier future for all. The talk will highlight a number of promising efforts underway among health professionals in Wisconsin.

This talk is sponsored by Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action, a fast-growing group of health professionals committed to communicating that the global climate crisis is a public health emergency, and advocating for equitable solutions that decrease the impact of climate change on human health. The presenter, Joel Charles, MD, is a rural full-spectrum family doc who got his MPH focusing on climate change and health. He has spent the last 10 years in his (limited) free time organizing health professionals to advocate…