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Sep 2025
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19. MS4SF Climate Health Equity Day

Code Green Team
About this episode

In this episode, we bring you “on the ground” interviews from Medical Students for a Sustainable Future’s 2025 Climate Health Equity Day conference. We spoke with medical students, organizers, and advocates about their experiences at the conference, the urgent need for climate-informed health policy, and how future physicians are mobilizing for planetary health justice.

These conversations capture the energy and vision of the next generation of healthcare leaders working to center equity in climate and health.

Episode written and hosted by Phoebe Cunningham and Elizabeth Whidden, produced by Natasha Sood, and edited by Liana Haigis.

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