Interim Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE), a pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital, and the Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change

Climate Action as a Prescription for Health
From stronger hurricanes and floods, disease spread by mosquitoes, and extraordinary heat, the health risks to everyone in Miami-Dade from climate change are already all too apparent. As much as Miami-Dade County may be a canary in the proverbial coal mine when it comes to detecting the effects of climate change on health, it also has moved towards taking climate actions that can lead all of us, and especially those least well off, forward to leading healthier lives. Dr. Bernstein’s presentation will demonstrate how climate actions can promote health and health equity in ways that can create outsized benefits to the most vulnerable communities while at the same time protecting the climate.

Dr. Bernstein focuses on the health impacts of the climate crisis on children’s health and advancing solutions to address its causes to improve the health and wellbeing of children around the world. He is an author on the Human Health chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment, a Congressionally mandated report that evaluates the impacts of climate change on humans and natural systems in the U.S. He regularly testifies before Congress on the child health impacts of climate change and he is a trusted voice for major news outlets. Dr. Bernstein leads Climate MD, a Harvard Chan C-CHANGE program to encourage physicians to transform climate change from an issue dominated by politics and concerns about the future or faraway places, to one that matters to every person’s health here and now.

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