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Nov 2022

36m 19s

7. Climate Change and Health Equity (wit...

Code Green Team

About this episode

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Gaurab Basu about how climate change, at its core, is a health inequity multiplier and a human rights issue. Dr. Basu is a physician and the founding co-director of the Cambridge Health Alliance Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also an instructor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Join us as we discuss all of this and more! To learn about Dr. Basu’s initiatives, head over to: Gaurab Basu | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Hosted by Natasha Sood

Written by Natasha Sood & Sarah Hsu

Edited by Liana Haigis

Referenced Resources:

C-CHANGE | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Climate Change Effects On Public Health | Yale School Of Public Health

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