Moderator
Caren 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 practicing physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
At the Journal, Dr. Solomon leads efforts related to coverage of climate change, including overseeing the ongoing “Fossil-Fuel Pollution and Climate Change” series; she also handles original articles, a series of review articles targeted to practicing
physicians (“Clinical Practice”), and clinical cases (“Clinical Problem Solving” and “Interactive Medical Cases”).
She has published on and lectures widely on the effects of climate change on health and how health care professionals can take action. Dr. Solomon serves on advisory committees on climate change for MMS and for the Department of Medicine at Brigham and
Women’s Hospital. She served as co-chair of the Harvard Medical School Faculty Council’s subcommittee on climate change and is on the steering committee of Harvard Faculty for Divestment.
She is a founding member of Climate Code Blue, an organization of Boston area physicians committed to climate action and 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.
Faculty
Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH
Director of Education and Policy, Harvard Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr. Basu’s work focuses on the intersection of climate change, global health equity, human rights, medical education, and public policy.
Dr. Basu has developed and evaluated numerous innovative health equity curricular programs. He is the director of the HMS Climate Change and Health curricular theme, co-founded the CHA Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy, co-directed the HMS
social medicine curriculum, and co-directs the Climate Health Organizing Fellowship. He serves on the education committee of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University. Dr. Basu has received the inaugural HMS Equity,
Social Justice, and Advocacy Faculty Award and the HMS Charles McCabe Faculty Prize in Excellence. He has been an HMS Curtis Prout Academy Fellow and a Harvard Macy Scholar.
In 2021, Dr. Basu was named to the Grist 50 list of national climate leaders. In 2018, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation named him a “Culture of Health Leader.” He serves on the Implementation Advisory Committee in the Massachusetts Governor’s Executive
Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. He was a part of the city of Cambridge’s Climate Crisis Working Group and its Net-Zero Climate Task Force. His work has been featured by NPR’s All Things Considered, The Boston Globe, Scientific American,
The BMJ, and Grist, among others.
Caleb Dresser, MD, MPH
Director of Education and Policy at the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Chief Executive Officer and President, Yale New Haven Health System
Dr. Caleb Dresser is the director of Healthcare Solutions at Harvard Chan C-CHANGE. In this role, he leads efforts to improve climate readiness in health care settings and enhance the capability of health care systems and professionals to address the
climate crisis. Caleb leads the Climate Resilient Clinics project at Harvard Chan C-CHANGE. Through this collaboration with Americares, Climate Central, and other organizations, he is working to develop evidence-based, patient-centered approaches to climate change adaptation, preparedness, and resilience
in frontline health clinics. Current projects include the evaluation and refinement of toolkits for patients, administrators, and clinicians; a pilot assessment of the use of targeted heatwave alerts for clinic staff; and the adaptation of existing
resources to new settings.
He is also assistant director of the Physician Fellowship in Climate Change and Human Health, which is offered through a collaboration
between Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE, and other centers at Harvard. This fellowship trains physicians to become leaders in climate change and human health research, education, communication, and advocacy.
Gregg Furie, MD, MHS
Medical Director for Climate and Sustainability, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Furie works to prepare clinicians to address current and emerging health threats from climate change and to reduce the environmental impact of clinical care.
He is a member of the Brigham Climate Action Council and the Mass General Brigham Climate and Sustainability Leadership Council. Dr. Furie graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, completed a residency in internal medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at Yale.
Marissa Hauptman, MD, MPH, FAAP
Medical Advisor, Bureau of Climate and Environmental Health, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Co-Director, Pediatric Environmental Health Center and Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Boston Children's Hospital
Dr. Hauptman is a practicing board-certified general pediatrician, environmental medicine physician, and co-director for the Boston Children’s Pediatric Environmental Health Center and the Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty
Unit. In addition to her general pediatrics practice, each week she provides multidisciplinary clinical care for children with lead poisoning, mold exposure, asthma, and other environmentally-mediated disease processes. Her career is dedicated to
mitigating environmental and climate injustices for pediatric and reproductive-aged populations through the intersection of public health and medicine. Her work particularly focuses on the importance of systematically integrating and leveraging geospatial
and biological markers of environmental exposures and screening tools into pediatric medicine.
She has an NIH/NIEHS K23 Career Development Award, is co-chair of the Clinical Integration Environment and Sustainability Efforts at Boston Children's Hospital, and recently became the inaugural chief medical advisor for the Bureau of Climate and Environmental
Health at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Brita E. Lundberg, MD
CEO and Founder, Health Equity Institute
CEO and Founder, Lundberg Health Advocates, LLC
A longtime advocate on the intersecting issues of climate and health, Dr. Lundberg is former chair and current board member of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility; emeritus chair and current member of the MMS Environmental and Occupational
Health Committee; and an active member of Climate Code Blue, a physician-led advocacy group dedicated to raising public awareness about the health effects of climate change.
She is a former assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University and completed her undergraduate education at Harvard and her medical training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Colorado.
Dr. Lundberg believes that being an advocate for public health is part of her job as a physician.
