Jul 12: Climate Change & Health symposium


Health Care Without Harm and the Magee-Women’s Hospital of UPMC present 
A Symposium on Climate Change and Health.

"A warmer and more variable climate threatens to lead to higher levels of some air pollutants, increase transmission of diseases through unclean water and through contaminated food, to compromise agricultural production in some of the least developed countries, and increase the hazards of extreme weather.” 
-- World Health Organization

Presenters:
Terry Collins, Teresa Heinz Professor of Green Chemistry at CMU on "Energy and Sustainability"
Gary Cohen, President of Health Care Without Harm on Climate Change and Health

Panel Discusssion:  
Phillip R.S. Johnson, the Heinz Endowments Breathe Project
Dr. Noe Copley-Woods,Physician Practices to Reduce Waste in the Hospital Setting
Nina Kaktins, Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, “Nurses Role in Recognizing, Educating,  and Advocating for Healthy Energy Choices” 
  
8-11:30 a.m. in the Mellon Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue—enter the building at street level off South Bellefield.  The Mellon Institute Auditorium venue is on the second floor and easy to find from the South Bellefield Avenue entrance.  This event is FREE but registration is required by calling the Magee education department at 412-802-8299.  Nursing CE’s have been applied for.  

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