Keynote Speakers
Marina Romanello, PhD
Executive Director, Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
Marina is the Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change, an independent and multi-disciplinary research collaboration of almost 300 researchers around the world, and headquartered at University College London’s Institute for Global Health. She is also Principal Research fellow at UCL, studying the links between public health and climate change. Marina led a team of researchers in developing England's National Health Service's Net Zero commitments, and is a member of numerous advisory boards for projects focusing on health and climate change. Trained as a clinical biochemist in the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and holds a PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research background spans from toxicology through to environmental health and climate change, and she has previously carried out her research in the Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires, the University of Cambridge, and the Francis Crick Institute.
Dr. Githinji Gitahi
Group CEO, Amref Health Africa
Dr. Githinji Gitahi joined Amref Health Africa in 2015. He has worked in various positions within the health, media, and private sectors. Prior to joining Amref, he served as the Vice President and Regional Director for Africa at Smile Train International. Dr. Gitahi is renowned as a leader on both the global and regional fronts, with notable achievements including co-chairing the global UHC2030 movement, serving on the Commission on Africa’s COVID-19 Response, and formerly serving on the Governing Board of Africa CDC and Board of National Cancer Institute. Additionally, he serves on the Board of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Board of Trustees of the Safaricom Foundation, and Board of the Food for Education. He was recently appointed to the Independent Board of the Lancet Countdown Dr. Gitahi is a vocal advocate for pro-poor Universal Health Coverage and leads the largest thought leadership convening on the African health agenda.
Speakers
Melinda K. Abrams, MS
Executive Vice President for Programs, The Commonwealth Fund
Melinda K. Abrams, M.S., is executive vice president for programs at the Commonwealth Fund, where she has responsibility for the development and management of the Fund’s grant programs. Since coming to the Fund in 1997, Ms. Abrams has worked on the Fund’s Task Force on Academic Health Centers, the Child Development and Preventive Care program, led the Patient-Centered Coordinated Care Program, and most recently was the senior vice president of the Delivery System Reform and International Health Policy programs. Ms. Abrams has served on many national committees and boards for private organizations and federal agencies and is a peer-reviewer for several journals. Ms. Abrams was the recipient of a Champion Award from the Primary Care Development Corporation and a Primary Care Community/Research Leadership Award from the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative. Ms. Abrams holds a B.A. in history from Cornell University and an M.S. in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Eric Berzon, MBA
Former Vice President and Assistant Treasurer - Finance, Kaiser Permanente
Eric Berzon recently retired as Vice President, Assistant Treasurer-Financing for Kaiser Permanente. He joined Kaiser in 1998. As AT he ran the corporate finance area, including financing, valuation and operating lease programs as well as the financing aspects of Kaiser’s renewable energy program.
Before joining Kaiser, Eric was the Director of Corporate Operations and Controller at a healthcare related subsidiary of Air Liquide America, and at Unisys (Burroughs) where he managed various aspects of manufacturing finance and control.
Eric graduated from Washington University with a degree in Economics, and from Temple University with an MBA. He is a Trustee of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (Israel). He lives in Oakland with his wife Danielle.
Adrita Bhattacharya-Craven, MSc
Research Director, Health and Demography, The Geneva Association
Adrita Bhattacharya-Craven is the Research Director of Health and Demography at the Geneva Association (GA), a leading global think tank dedicated to the insurance industry. Her work at the GA focuses on the strategic and long-term research priorities of health and life insurers, which is undertaken in collaboration with CEOs and executives of GA member companies, academic institutions, and global organisations.
Adrita’s work reflects the risks faced by life and health insurance, brought about by new and growing disease burdens, longevity, technology, and climate that are increasingly central considerations for improving risk protection and business sustainability. As a health policy expert, she has a particular interest in the role of financing to organise health and care markets and address protection gaps. Over the past 20 years, her career spanned the National Health Service in England, before moving on to work with several multilateral and private organisations such as the World Bank; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Formerly DFID in the UK); USAID and KPMG in a wide array of settings
David W. Callaway, MD, MPA
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center; Chief of Crisis Operations and Sustainability, Advocate Health
Dr. David Callaway is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC and the Advocate Health Enterprise Chief of Crisis Operations and Sustainability. Dr. Callaway served three years as an expeditionary physician supporting the United States Marine Corps in combat and crisis zones around the globe before returning to his training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency where he served as Chief Resident. Dr. Callaway earned his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine and a Masters in Public Administration focused on national security from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Callaway is a member of the World Economic Forum Young Global Leader community, a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Currently he leads the nation’s 3rd largest non profit health system as it strives for Net Zero operations.
Pamela F. Cipriano, PhD, RN
Vice-President, International Council of Nurses; Dean & Sadie Heath Cabiniss Professor, University of Virginia School of Nursing
Dr. Pam Cipriano has over 40 years’ experience as a globally recognized nurse leader, strategist, educator and advocate. Pam has powered several national and international initiatives to improve working conditions in nursing, achieving better and safer services. Among her accolades, she was ranked number 2 on Healthcare Global’s list of the Top 10 women in healthcare for 2021. She was previously named one of the top 25 women leaders in U.S. healthcare by Modern Healthcare magazine – and one of its Top 100 Most Influential People in U.S. Health Care for four consecutive years.
Past roles and honors include: President, American Nurses Association – two terms; Editor-In-Chief, American Nurse Today Media; Chief Clinical & Chief Nursing Officer, University of Virginia Medical Center; Nurse Scholar In Residence, Institute of Medicine; Senior Director, Healthcare Management, Galloway Consulting.
Fellowship Ad Eundem, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland; MM Styles President’s Award, American Nurses Credentialing Center; Health Care Leader Award, American Academy of Nursing; Honorary Doctor of Science honoris cause, Medical University of South Carolina.
Donna Drummond, BS
Senior Vice President, Chief Expense Officer, and Chief Sustainability Officer, Northwell Health
Donna Drummond is Chief Expense Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer at Northwell Health. As Chief Expense Officer, she leads the Northwell Health Alliance group purchasing organization, centralized pharmacy and centralized biomedical services as well as the health system’s central sterile facility in Bethpage. She collaborates with Northwell Health’s clinical and administrative leadership to identify opportunities to become more efficient, leveraging her expertise in expense management and analytics to reduce waste and unwarranted variation, and eliminate excess cost.
As Chief Sustainability Officer, Ms. Drummond works to promote employing responsible environmental business practices and programs to help Northwell to reduce consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and waste generation. She is working closely with leaders and teams across our organization to identify opportunities to accelerate Northwell’s progress in sustainability. A certified public accountant, Ms. Drummond joined Northwell Health in 2002 as Vice President, Material Support Services. In that role, she established a financial reporting and analysis team to execute a proactive procurement strategy of continuous improvement and increased support. Ms. Drummond was Associate Executive Director of Nonclinical Services at Northwell’s tertiary campuses.
She then served as the health system’s Vice President of Value Analysis during which time she led a supply expense management project which saved the health system more than $100 million in supply-related expenses. Before coming to Northwell, Ms. Drummond held a number of positions with J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc. where she worked for 15 years. Prior to that, she was employed by Deloitte, Haskins & Sells. Ms. Drummond holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from St. John’s University.
Matthew Eckelman, PhD
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University
Dr. Matthew Eckelman is an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University and an adjunct associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health. He has led several national and international studies of national healthcare emissions and resulting public health impacts and has published numerous articles on life cycle assessment and sustainability in clinical care, drugs, and devices. Dr. Eckelman is a member of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and was an analyst for the UK National Health Service developing long-term strategies and implementation plans for health care supply chain decarbonization. He holds a doctorate in chemical and environmental engineering from Yale University.
Oliver Eitelwein, PhD
Partner, Oliver Wyman Health and Life Sciences
Dr. Oliver Eitelwein is a partner in Oliver Wyman's Health and Life Sciences Practice. He can draw on 20+ years of strategy consulting experience in the Health & Life Sciences sector.
He leads Oliver Wyman’s Global Sustainability practice in Health & Life Science and has authored publications and reports on climate, the implications of climate change on human health and driving impact in the transition.
Oliver is a proven expert in the areas of corporate strategy, operations, digital transformation, and performance transformation and has published more than 30 studies, management articles, and books.
He holds a degree in industrial engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and did his doctorate on strategic management and complexity theory at WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany.
Anna Goldman, MD, MPH, MPA
Medical Director of Climate and Sustainability, Boston Medical Center
Anna Goldman is a primary care physician, researcher, and Medical Director of Climate and Sustainability at Boston Medical Center Health System. In the Medical Director role, she works with other members of BMC's Sustainability Team to advance sustainable operations at BMCHS and address environmental justice for BMC patients and the wider community. In October 2023, she co-founded Clean Power Prescription, a program to bring solar energy to patients who report difficulty affording utility payments. She is currently funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to study the impacts of a novel health care payment model, Accountable Care Organizations, on adults living with serious mental illness. In 2022, she served as an advisor to Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration on climate-friendly food procurement for hospitals and universities. She is a PCP in the general internal medicine clinic at BMC.
Andrea MacNeill, MD
Director, Planetary Healthcare Lab, University of British Columbia; Co-Director, Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare
Dr. Andrea MacNeill is a Surgical Oncologist at Vancouver General Hospital and BC Cancer, and a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia where she specializes in sarcoma and peritoneal malignancies. She is the founder and principal investigator of the UBC Planetary Healthcare Lab, a novel interdisciplinary research collaborative dedicated to creating health systems that promote both human and planetary health. As the Medical Director of Planetary Health for Vancouver Coastal Health, she is working on a transformational planetary health strategy for the health authority to mitigate the healthcare climate footprint while creating health and social value. She is an executive member of CASCADES, a pan-Canadian knowledge mobilization network dedicated to accelerating the transition to low-carbon, sustainable health systems in Canada. She is currently co-chairing a UBC/Yale-led Lancet Commission in sustainable healthcare.
Fiona Miller, PhD
Director, CASCADES - Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis, University of Toronto
Fiona A. Miller, PhD, is a Professor of Health Policy in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She is the Founding Director of the UofT Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care and runs a national initiative for climate action and awareness in healthcare, funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada: CASCADES. In these roles, Fiona leads and supports efforts to improve the sustainability of health systems through research, education, practice change and policy development.
Maria McGowan, BA
Global Underwriting and Claims Risk Manager for Manulife
Maria McGowan has been working in the insurance industry for 25+ years and is Global Underwriting and Claims Risk Manager for Manulife. With a background in underwriting her career has expanded to include expertise in claims, reinsurance, product review, risk management in both domestic and international markets. Her global role requires a significant amount of insight into emerging trends in underwriting, products, medicine, technology, regulatory landscape and is a thought leader in the insurance industry on the impact of climate risk on mortality and morbidity.
Dr. María P. Neira
Director, Environment, Climate Change, and Health, World Health Organization
Dr. María P. Neira holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery (University of Oviedo, Spain), and a specialization in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases at the Université René Déscartes, Paris. She then obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris, France as well as a University Diploma in Human Nutrition. She also obtained an International Diploma in Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr Neira is since 2005, Director of the Department of Public Health and Environment at the World Health Organization (WHO).
Between 2002 and 2005, she was Vice Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs in Spain and President of the Spanish Food Safety and Nutrition Agency.
She has been working for WHO since 1993, with her first assignment being Coordinator of the Global Task Force on Cholera Control and then being appointed in 1999 as Director of the Department of Control, Prevention and Eradication.
Before joining WHO, she obtained extensive field experience working for five years in Africa as Public Health Adviser in the Ministry of Health in Mozambique and in Kigali, Rwanda, where she served as UN Public Health Advisor/Physician for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Previously, Maria acted as Medical Coordinator with Médecins sans Frontières within refugee camps in Salvador and Honduras during the armed conflict.
Among other distinctions, Dr Neira has been awarded the Médaille de l'Ordre du Mérite National by the Government of France, the Spanish National Nutrition Strategy Award, the Mujer Extraordinaria Award by Queen Letizia of Spain, and she is currently a member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Asturias.
Renee N. Salas, MD, MPH, MS
Founding Director, The Cooperative; Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Dr. Renee N. Salas is the Founding Director of The Cooperative. She is a guest editor for The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Group’s “Fossil-fuel Pollution and Climate Change” series and serves as the Co-Director of NEJM Group’s Climate Crisis and Clinical Practice Initiative. Dr. Salas is a member of the global Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and founded and leads its U.S. Brief Working Group, serving as the U.S. Brief’s senior author since 2022, after being lead author from 2018 to 2021. Dr. Salas was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2021 for her work in climate change and health and serves as the Climate Change Interest Group Chair. She is on the Steering Committee for the NAM Grand Challenge on Climate Change, Health, and Equity and the Advisory Committee for The National Academies Climate Crossroads initiative. Dr. Salas is an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School with a variety of affiliations across Harvard University.
Brent Sandmeyer, MPH
Senior Program Officer, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Brent Sandmeyer is a Senior Program Officer in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement. He leads AHRQ’s portfolio of work at the intersection of climate change and healthcare and is a representative to the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector and the HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity. He also serves as a lead on the AHRQ Long COVID Care Network and the upcoming AHRQ Healthcare Extension Service. Brent has served at AHRQ for over 13 years providing strategic direction, developing new initiatives, managing research grants and contracts, and training and supervising staff. The ultimate goal of his work is to identify and test healthcare system and policy levers to improve care quality, lower the cost of care, and eliminate disparities. Sandmeyer has a BA in Psychology from NYU and an MPH in Healthcare Management & Policy from Portland State University, and serves as a volunteer in the DC & Maryland Medical Reserve Corps.
Lauren Sorkin, MS
Executive Director, Resilient Cities Network
Lauren Sorkin is the Executive Director of the Resilient Cities Network where she oversees global efforts to strengthen cities in the face of the complex and interconnected challenges. Leading a team of urban resilience professionals in Mexico City, New York, Rotterdam and Singapore in collaboration with Chief Resilience Officers in 40 countries, her work builds on the unique capacity, breadth, and legacy of the 100 Resilient Cities Program to enhance the resilience of communities and critical infrastructure. She also serves as an advisor and spokesperson on urban resilience, sustainable finance, climate risk, holistic health and women’s leadership. Previously with the Asian Development Bank, Sorkin led the Bank’s first ever climate change investment plan before moving to the ADB’s Vietnam Office to mainstream climate risks and opportunities in the country’s $7 billion portfolio.
Before joining the ADB, she led knowledge management efforts for two USAID programs: the Eco-Asia Clean Development and Climate Program in China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam; and the Initiative for Conservation in the Andean Amazon in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. She has published work on biofuels, climate change, urban resilience, infant mortality, and HIV/AIDS. Sorkin holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Tufts University, a Master of Science in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and is a certified yoga instructor and holistic health counselor. Sorkin currently resides in Barcelona with her husband and two children.
Alexis Feeney Tallman, MBA
Managing Director, Health Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation
Alexis Feeney Tallman serves as a Managing Director for the Health Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation where she leads strategy and partnerships efforts. Previously, she served as Director of Global Covid-19 Response and Recovery where she led cross-functional workstreams to advance the Foundation’s Global Vaccination Initiative strategy.
Alexis’s experience spans all stages of the strategy execution lifecycle, from goal setting and strategy development to investment planning and prioritization, organizational design, program execution and performance management. Prior to joining the Foundation, Alexis served as Staff Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Anthem, where she led efforts to improve customer experience. Previously Alexis launched Anthem’s corporate Transformation Office, led analytics teams supporting investment prioritization, and drove strategy and planning processes at corporate and business unit levels.
Alexis received a Master of Business Administration degree from Duke University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia.
Madeleine Thomson, PhD
Head of Climate Impacts and Adaptation, Wellcome
Madeleine has over 25 years of research experience focused on large-scale, climate-sensitive, health interventions in Low- and Middle-income Countries.
Prior to joining Wellcome, Madeleine worked as Senior Research Scientist at The International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, where she directed the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on ‘Malaria Early Warning Systems and other Climate Sensitive Diseases’. She was also a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Her research has involved the development of new data, methodologies and tools for improving climate-sensitive health interventions with a focus on infectious disease, public health outcomes of hydrometeorological disasters and nutrition.
Madeleine is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Health Informatics, Computing and Statistics at Lancaster University Medical School.
Kristina Wyatt, JD, MBA
Deputy General Counsel and Chief Sustainability Officer, Persefoni
Kristina serves as Deputy General Counsel and Chief Sustainability Officer at Persefoni. She previously served as Senior Counsel for Climate and ESG to the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where she led the drafting of proposed rules related to climate change disclosures. Prior to joining the SEC, she was a Senior Counsel and Director of Sustainability at Latham & Watkins LLP where she developed and built the firm’s Sustainability program, co-chaired its ESG practice, and was a member of the firm’s ESG Steering Committee.
Kristina holds a BA from Duke University, JD from the University of Colorado, and MBA in Sustainability from Yale University. She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Paul, Weiss Rifkind ESG and Law Institute’s Sustainability Advisory Board, the Persefoni Sustainability Advisory Board, and the Association of Corporate Counsel’s ESG Steering Committee. She previously served on the boards of Robin Song Productions and the St. Francis Episcopal Day School. Kristina was named to the 2023 NACD Directorship 100 in the Governance Professionals category.
Moderators
Joe Bialowitz, MS, M.Sc.
Former National Environmental Program Leader, Kaiser Permanente
Joe Bialowitz is an accomplished practitioner and trusted advisor across numerous aspects of healthcare sustainability. Over a 14-year period at Kaiser Permanente, he established and continuously improved its annual disclosures of GHG emissions and climate-related risks; and co-led environmental initiatives across levels and functions that significantly decreased pollution and increased business resiliency. Since departing Kaiser, Joe has directed teams of experts that delivered the first ever Scope 3 emissions reduction toolkit for healthcare providers (including an Excel-based calculator and how-to guide) and helped several of America’s largest health systems to measure their carbon pollution, develop actionable decarbonization roadmaps, and assess physical climate risks to facilities and patients. He holds a Master of Science degree in Environmental Management from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, a Master of Science degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Stanford University.
Omnia El Omrani, MD
Imperial College London
Dr Omnia El Omrani is a medical doctor and a climate and health policy fellow at Imperial College London. She is currently pursuing her Master of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. She was appointed as the first official Youth Envoy to the COP27 President and Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs and was then selected as the Health Envoy for COP28. She serves on the Lancet Commission in Sustainable Healthcare and was selected as Apolitical's 50 Gender Equality Gamechangers in 2024. Fast Company ME recognized her as one of the 35 Most Creative People in Business in 2023 and was awarded the 2023 Women of the Future, 50 Rising Stars in ESG.
Gabriella Mickel, JD, LLM, MEM
Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy
Gabriella Mickel, JD, LLM, MEM specializes in environmental and administrative law, working at the Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy (CAELP) to tackle pressing regulatory challenges. She also co-chairs the ESG and Sustainability Committee of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources. Previously, Gabriella served as a fellow with both the Yale Program on Health Care Environmental Sustainability and the Pace | Haub Law Environmental Program.
Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, FACEP
Dean, Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Megan L. Ranney is an emergency physician, researcher, and national advocate for innovative approaches to public health. In July 2023, she joined Yale University as Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, where she is also the C.-E. A. Winslow Professor of Public Health.
Her research focuses on developing, testing, and disseminating digital health interventions to prevent violence and related behavioral health problems, and on COVID-related risk reduction. She has held multiple national leadership roles, including as co-founder of GetUsPPE during the COVID-19 pandemic and Senior Strategic Advisor to AFFIRM at the Aspen Institute, focused on ending gun violence through a non-partisan public health approach. She was previously the Warren Alpert Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine, Deputy Dean of the School of Public Health, and Founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health at Brown University. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, a Fellow of the Aspen Health Innovators’ Fellowship, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
She earned her bachelor's degree in history of science, graduating summa cum laude, from Harvard University; her medical doctorate, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha, from Columbia University; and her master’s degree in public health from Brown University. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine and a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research at Brown University.
Caren G. Solomon, MD, MPH
Deputy Editor, New England Journal of Medicine; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dr. Caren Solomon is a Deputy Editor at the New England Journal of Medicine, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. At the Journal, Dr. Solomon’s responsibilities include overseeing content related to fossil fuel pollution and climate change. Dr. Solomon serves as the NEJM Group lead for The Cooperative and is Co-Director of the Climate Crisis and Clinical Practice Initiative. She also serves on the Project Committee for the National Academy of Medicine’s Communicating About Climate Change & Health and on climate change advisory committees for the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Endocrine Society. She is a founding member of Climate Code Blue, an organization of Boston area physicians committed to climate action and to amplifying the voices of frontline communities most affected by climate change. Dr. Solomon graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and earned an MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Trevor Thompson, MEM, MBA
Climate, Philanthropy, and Strategic Foresight Consultant
With a focus on climate, health equity, and environmental justice, Trevor Thompson has experience in philanthropy and strategy, mission-aligned investments, nonprofit management consulting, and long-term scenario planning and forecasting. He was most recently the Program Officer at the NorthLight Foundation, where, among other tasks, he established the climate and health portfolio focused on training clinicians in climate and health advocacy, especially in support of vulnerable populations. Trevor authored a report on how climate change impacts health equity and patient outcomes across dozens of clinical specialties, convincing a Bronx medical school to incorporate climate and health into its curriculum. Prior to working in philanthropy, Trevor worked as a professional futurist at a think tank focused on health, developing long-term (e.g., 20-year) suites of plausible forecasts and scenarios. In 2013, Trevor and his colleagues proposed a 2020 pandemic as a plausible development for the future of public health. As a futurist, Trevor focused on health, emerging technologies, sustainability, and climate.
Trevor has facilitated or given talks on climate and health for funders, nonprofits, and clinicians. He has served on steering committees and advisory boards for the Health and Environmental Funders Network, Building Equity and Alignment for Environmental Justice, and the Childhood Climate Fund. He is also a Terrance Keenan Institute Fellow.
Trevor earned his Master of Environmental Management and Master of Business Administration at Yale University, along with a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy and a secondary in African and African American Studies from Harvard University
Event Co-Chairs
Ann Kurth, PhD, CNM, MPH
President, The New York Academy of Medicine
Jodi Sherman, MD
Director, Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability