Health Care Without Harm is participating in critical conversations during Climate Week NYC. Browse the agenda and join the dialogue—either online or in-person—to discuss sustainability in the health care sector and protecting health from the climate crisis.
September 23
1:30 - 2:15 p.m ET - Health Care Without Harm and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions will announce a joint commitment with the Clinton Global Initiative. Visit this page to watch the sessions online.
- Speakers: H.E. Ms. Razan Al Mubarak, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion, COP28, and Diana Picon Manyari, International climate director, Health Care Without Harm.
Roundtable: Innovating for Sustainable Health Care, organized by Axios. Health care and policy leaders will share how they are working to reduce health care’s climate impact and redesigning care delivery with this in mind.
- Participant: Emmie Mediate, Chief Program Officer, Health Care Without Harm.
September 24
National (U.S.) Commission on Climate and Workforce Health event.
- Speaker: Gary Cohen, President and co-founder, Health Care Without Harm.
September 25
10 - 11:30 a.m. ET - Roundtable: Building resilient health systems: adapting to the pressures of climate change, organized by Economist Impact.
- Speaker: Emmie Mediate, Chief Program Officer, Health Care Without Harm.
2 - 3 p.m. ET - Foreign Policy Health Forum @ UNGA79. The Health Forum will bring together world leaders, policymakers, industry experts, and civil society to explore strategies for expanding healthcare access and improving system resilience. Register here.
- Speaker: Josh Karliner, Director of Global Partnerships, Health Care Without Harm, will participate in the segment Climate & health: Healthy planet, healthy people: The health argument for climate action.
Closed-doors meetings: Health Care Without Harm is hosting two closed-door meetings with first-of-their-kind groups of international and U.S. health insurers to explore the role insurers play in mitigating and responding to the climate and health crisis. We are co-convening the international roundtable with Bupa at UNGA Goals House, and the domestic working group meeting with Blue Shield of California.