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Media: Op-eds and LTEs

Posted March 6, 2023 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Opinion: To protect our health, tell the truth about the fossil fuel industry

Dr. Linda Rudolph connects the dots between fossil fuels and their impacts on our health and climate and calls for action to counter industry propaganda.
Posted February 6, 2023 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Opinion: Racism is #1 factor in preterm birth disparity

Dr. Rene’ Settle-Robinson underscores the stressors Black women face due to racism and its effect on preterm birth.
Posted January 3, 2023 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Opinion: The Other Threat to our Water Supply

Dr. Nicole Mahealani Lum underscores the threats to the water supply in Hawaiʻi due to climate change.
Posted January 2, 2023 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Opinion: Children With Asthma Breathe Easier With Electric School Buses

Dr. Gerri Cannon-Smith argues the benefit of schools switching to electric buses.
Posted December 19, 2022 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Rx for Heatwaves: Sacramento Needs a Comprehensive Plan for Extreme Heat

Dr. Nneoma Nwachuku Ojiaku discusses the health effects of heatwaves on pregnant people.
Posted November 8, 2022 Media: Op-eds and LTEs

Opinion: Climate Health and People with Disabilities (PWD)

Dr. Frank Samonte discusses the gap in health promotion strategies to address climate health in people with disabilities.
Posted November 8, 2022 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Opinion: Wildfires though the health lens

Dr. Pragya Rai addresses wildfires and their health risks including burns, smoke inhalation, and heat-related illness.
Posted July 29, 2022 Media: Op-eds and LTEs

Opinion: Musk – Make Austin an Ecological Paradise

In an op-ed published in The Austin Chronicle, Climate and Health Equity Fellow Dr. Jessica Edwards calls on Tesla to lead the green charge in Austin.
Posted August 9, 2019 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Public Service Commission should set ambitious energy saving goals for power companies

As physicians on the front line of public health, Drs. Cheryl Holder and Todd Sack know that energy efficiency reduces pollution, improves human health, and lowers energy costs.  
Posted August 9, 2019 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Climate change is making us sicker

Dr. Homan Wai writes about the increasing health impacts, due to our warming and increasingly unstable climate. The time to act is now to protect our health!  
Posted July 24, 2019 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

The climate of American medicine

Dr. Sam Stea appeals to doctors, nurses, friends and peers, that now is the time we must acknowledge climate change as the grave health crisis it will most certainly become....

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Posted July 12, 2019 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Extreme Heat in Miami Will Only Get Worse, Scientists Warn

Miami has broken heat records left and right this summer, but scientists say this is just the beginning.    
Posted July 10, 2019 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Climate change a threat to public health

The directors for the Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate write about how climate change is affecting public health in Montana.  
Posted June 6, 2019 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

The Case of Juliana v. U.S. — Children and the Health Burdens of Climate Change

Drs Renee N. Salas, Wendy Jacobs, and Frederica Perera write about the case of Juliana v. U.S. — Children and the Health Burdens of Climate Change.  
Posted May 20, 2019 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Video: “Another Tool in the Toolbox”

Dr Lori Byron speaks about climate, health and divestment in this PK (Pecha Kucha) talk.    
Posted May 17, 2019 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Video: Climate change disproportionately affects low-income populations

Florida TV coverage interviewing FCCA Members as part of the Trouble in Paradise series.    
Posted April 1, 2019 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Climate policy will help ‘keep my patients out of the hospital’

Dr. Laalitha Surapaneni is interviewed about how the effects of climate change are showing up in her day-to-day work as an internal medicine doctor.  
Posted February 27, 2019 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Medical community must sound alarm on climate change’s negative effects on health

Dr Cheryl Holder writes about how we all bear responsibility for making our city, and our world, a healthful place to live and raise our families.  
Posted February 20, 2019 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

My Patients’ Health Depends on Addressing Climate Change

Medical student Autumn Vogel confronts the future, writing an Op-Ed on how climate change is going to put incredible stress on our already overburdened health system.
Posted February 12, 2019 Media: Op-eds and LTEs, Members in Action

Climate change is a health emergency. Let’s act like it.

Dr. Linda Rudolph (Public Health Institute), and Dr. Will Barrett (American Lung Association) write about the California Call to Action on Climate, Health, and Equity.
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