Course Co-Chairs
Katherine Gundling, MD FACP
Professor Emerita
Allergy and Immunology, Internal Medicine
Office of Sustainability: Director of Academic Engagement
UC San Francisco
Robin Cooper, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Course Description
In Part One of this series, we examined the effects of global warming on individual patient health. We now shift the lens to a broader public health perspective. With a view toward community, institutional and population health, UCSF faculty and renowned leaders first teach us fundamental principles of public health, challenges in climate health and science communication, and the big picture of global warming effects on populations. Public health experts then describe forward-looking efforts in community resilience and disaster preparedness, and sustainability leaders highlight examples of UCSF’s actions to reduce its own large carbon footprint. We end by exploring climate solutions that also present opportunities for improvement in human disease and health inequalities.
Lecture Schedule
No classes scheduled on November 3rd and November 24th for this series
PLEASE NOTE: Schedule or speakers may change on short notice
| Date | Title | Speaker(s) | Presentations | Session Replay |
| October 20, 2020 |
“Normal” is Not Coming Back! |
Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, Professor emeritus, Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA | Download Slides | UCTV Video |
| October 27, 2020 | Politics and Division: The Sociology of Climate Change and Science Denial |
Gina Solomon, MD, MPH, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF Panelists: Greg Dalton, Founder, Climate One/Commonwealth Club of San Francisco |
Download Slides | UCTV Video |
| November 10, 2020 | Population Health Risks of a Changing Climate | Kristie L. Ebi, Ph.D., MPH, Center for Change and the Global Environment University of Washington | Download Slides | UCTV Video |
| November 17, 2020 | 1) Modernizing Community Resilience |
Louise Bedsworth, PhD, ED California Strategic Growth Council |
UCTV Video | |
| 2) Modernizing Disaster Preparedness |
Naveena Bobba, MD, MPH, Deputy Director of Public Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health Matt Wolff, MA, Climate and Health Program Manager Population Health Division, San Francisco Department of Public Health |
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| December 1, 2020 | Looking in the Mirror: The Impact of Health (Care) on Climate |
Seema Gandhi, MD. Associate Professor of Anesthesia, UCSF Gail Lee, MS, Sustainability Director, UCSF and UCSF Health Panelist: |
UCTV Video | |
| December 8, 2020 | Good Solutions Solve Multiple Problems: Shared Solutions to Global Warming, Human Disease and Health Inequities |
Chad Frischmann, PhD, Vice President and Director of Research, Drawdown Project Panelists: Vincanne Adams, PhD, Professor of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA |