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Jun 2023
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Code Green: Episode 9: Cleveland Clinic'...

The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education
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In this episode, we speak with medical student James Sullivan from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University about the process of creating an integrated climate-health curriculum at the medical school.

If you want to learn more, check out this journal article about the Cleveland Clinic’s climate-health curricular design: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000004376


Episode written by Genny Silva, Produced by Natasha Sood, and Edited by Liana Haigis

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