Local Voices, Local Solutions: How Frontline Communities Are Addressing the Overlapping Health Impacts of Climate Crises, Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power
This webinar, recorded on November 14, 2023, provides a forum for voices representing the Navajo Nation, Rocky Flats, Plymouth, MA, and the Marshall Islands to share health impacts to their communities and specific concerns and concrete actions that must
be taken to mitigate the overlapping effects of climate change, nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Participants will learn how they can take positive steps to advocate for this important issue.
Faculty
Benetick
Kabua Maddison
Executive Director
Marshallese Educational Initiative
Benetick Kabua Maddison is the Executive Director of the Marshallese Educational Initiative (MEI), a nonprofit based in Springdale, Arkansas, where the highest concentration of Marshallese reside in the continental United States. Born in Majuro Atoll,
Maddison migrated to the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas with his family at the age of six. His work at MEI includes leading efforts to raise awareness of the biological, ecological, and cultural consequences of the nuclear testing legacy on his homelands,
as well as the impact of climate change. Benetick has spoken at conferences and events in the US and internationally, including addressing the United Nations General Assembly several times. Benetick worked previously at the University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences as a Community Health Advocate and remains active in addressing health disparities; he is also committed to raising Marshallese educational attainment levels. Benetick is pursuing a degree in political science at Arkansas State
University.
Justin
Ahasteen
Executive
Director
Navajo Nation Washington Office
From Whitecone, AZ, Justin Ahasteen is Bilagáana (white) born for Tótsohnii (Big Water). His maternal grandfather is Bilagáana and his paternal grandfather is Kiisʼáanii (Hopi). After graduating from high school Justin enlisted in the United States Marine
Corps and was selected for a special duty assignment with the Marine Corps Office of Legislative Affairs at the Pentagon in Washington DC. Justin served as an Administrative & Congressional Affairs Specialist participating in a wide variety of issues
to include military policy and military/veteran constituent affairs. During his military service, Justin was awarded three prestigious awards for his involvement in the community.
Upon completion of his active military service in 2018, he continued his public service working in both the private and public sector. In 2020, Justin joined Valleywise Health as an Executive Assistant supporting the CEO of their Federally Qualified Health
Centers which focused on expanding access to primary care services to medically underserved communities addressing a variety of issues surrounding health inequities, challenges of access to care, and reducing social determinants to health to improve
the health outcomes of their patient population. In 2021 Justin transitioned to the Navajo Nation Washington Office serving as a Government and Legislative Affairs Associate leading the Navajo Nation’s Infrastructure, Veteran Affairs, Social Services,
Health, and Public Safety portfolios.
In January of 2023, Justin was appointed to serve as the Executive Director for NNWO. Justin is a graduate of Rio Salado Community College, a graduate of Northern Arizona University and is currently a candidate for a Master of Public Administration &
Policy with the American Public University System.
Kristen Iversen, PhD
Author
and Professor of English
University of Cincinnati
Kristen Iversen is an author and two-time winner of the Colorado Book Award. Her books include Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats; Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth; Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction;
and a forthcoming literary biography of Nikola Tesla. She is also editor of the anthology Doom with a View: Historical and Cultural Contexts of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant and co-editor of the anthology Don't Look Now: Things We Wish We Hadn’t Seen.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Hotel Amerika, The American Scholar.
Mary Lampert
Director
Pilgrim Watch
Mary Lampert is the executive director of Pilgrim Watch regarding the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station located in Plymouth MA. She is also a member of the Massachusetts Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel, chairs the Town of Duxbury Nuclear Advisory
Committee (1990-2023) and serves on statewide environmental boards.
Mary represented Pilgrim Watch in Pilgrim’s License Transfer Application proceeding in 2019. Previously, Mary represented Pilgrim Watch in the adjudication process regarding Entergy’s License Renewal Application for Pilgrim, 2006-2012. Mary also represented
Pilgrim Watch in litigation regarding NRC’s Post Fukushima Orders.
Mary has participated on panels at NRC on emergency planning, spent fuel, and lessons learned from Fukushima. She served as a panelist on DOE’s Consent Based Siting effort for the long-term management of our nations spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive
waste, and the President’s Blue-Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future focused on spent fuel storage.
Moderators
Brita E. Lundberg,
MD
Chair, Board of Directors
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
Trained in infectious diseases, Brita Lundberg is active in the medical community as Chair of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, former Chair of the Environmental and Occupational Health Committee at the Massachusetts Medical Society;
as an MMS Delegate for the Charles River District; and as an active member of Climate Code Blue, a physician-led advocacy group dedicated to raising public awareness around the health effects of climate change. Dr. Lundberg completed her undergraduate
education at Harvard Medical School, residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado. A former Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University, she
is CEO and founder of Lundberg Health Advocates, LLC, a patient advocacy group.
Mariana Budjeryn, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center
Mariana Budjeryn is a Senior Research Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, Project on Managing the Atom (MTA). Formerly, she held appointments of a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at MTA, and as visiting professor at Tufts University
and Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Mariana is a member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academies of Sciences and a senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her research and analytical
contributions appeared in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Nonproliferation Review, Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, War on the Rocks, and in the publications of the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars where she is a Global Fellow.
Intended Audience
This webinar is designed for physicians, physicians-in-training, other health care leaders and professionals, students, and members of the community.
Course
Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:
- Discuss the lived experience of frontline environmental justice communities that disproportionately shoulder the medical consequences of climate change and nuclear development and testing.
- Advocate for policies and mitigation of climate change and nuclear war prevention
Course Fees
Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) Physician Member: $40.00
MMS Resident/Student Member: Free
Non-Member Physician: $90.00
Non-Members Resident/Student: $20.00
Allied Health Professional/Other: $32.00
Format & Estimated Time to Complete: Video recording/1 hour
Accreditation and Credit Information
Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
(ACCME) through the joint providership of the Massachusetts Medical Society and Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility. The Massachusetts Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The Massachusetts Medical Society designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1
Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity meets the criteria for the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine for risk management study.
National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
Physician Assistants may claim a maximum of 1.00 Category 1 credit for completing this activity. NCCPA accepts AMA PRA
Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society.
Exam/Assessment: A score of 70% or higher is required to receive AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.
Activity Term
Original Release Date: December 12, 2023
Review Date (s): N/A
Termination Date: December 31, 2024
System Requirements
Desktops/Laptops
Windows 10
Mac OSX 10.6 higher Most modern browsers including:
IE 11+
Firefox 18.0+
Chrome latest version
Safari 12+
Mobile/Tablet
iOS devices beginning with OS version 10 or higher (includes, iPhone, ipad and iTouch devices)
