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CHART Webinar Series – Sustainable Solutions for Healthcare and Community Action
Sustainable Solutions for Healthcare and Community Action
Tuesday, June 23 (12-1pm ET)
Description: This session will explore how the WE ACT framework can be applied to healthcare delivery and serve as a practical tool for developing health-focused community solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Participants will examine ongoing sustainability efforts across metropolitan Atlanta and Georgia, including local initiatives such as the City of Decatur’s environmental programs, as well as community and hospital composting efforts. The session will also touch on how extreme weather, such as extreme heat and flooding, can contribute to the spread of infectious diseases.
Objectives: By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Reference the “WE ACT” framework to guide community efforts in decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution.
- Utilize the “WE ACT” framework to decrease greenhouse gas emissions from healthcare delivery.
- Engage with specific ongoing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in metropolitan Atlanta and Georgia.
- Describe two ways in which infectious diseases increase with extreme weather.
Bio:
Preeti Jaggi, MD
Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Dr. Jaggi is currently a Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University and Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She sees parallels between the advances in antimicrobial stewardship and healthcare quality improvement that could be applied to decreasing emissions from the healthcare delivery system. She has completed training with the Climate Reality Project and is completed the Climate Health Organizing Fellows Program through the Center for Health Equity, Education and Advocacy/Cambridge Health alliance.
This webinar series is supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P20ES036110. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
