2024 Interim Meeting Ethics Forum — Health Care's Carbon Footprint: Exploring the Health Care Sector’s Impact on Climate Change
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 7:00-8:00 p.m. EST – Virtual Live Webinar
Andrew Hantel, MD
Faculty, Divisions of Leukemia and Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Andrew Hantel, MD, is a faculty member in the Divisions of Leukemia and Population Sciences at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, and he is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS).
He received his MD from Loyola University Chicago; trained in internal medicine, adult hematology/oncology, and medical ethics at the University of Chicago and in population sciences at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Dr. Hantel’s clinical
care focuses on patients with leukemia and related blood cancers; he also serves as a hospital ethics consultant. His research program leverages health services and care delivery methods to address ethical dilemmas in cancer discovery and delivery,
for which he receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health, American Society for Clinical Oncology, American Cancer Society, and Greenwall Foundation. Dr. Hantel’s current work focuses on cancer health equity in the contexts of
research participation, artificial intelligence, and climate change.
Rachel Oblath, PhD
Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Director of Research Methodology, Boston Medical Center Department of Psychiatry
Rachel Oblath, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and the Director of Research Methodology in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center. Her research focuses on the provision of
psychiatric emergency services in vulnerable communities. She also focuses on using electronic health records to examine the association between climate change and mental health. In addition, she has ongoing collaborations with Boston Police Department,
Boston Emergency Medical Services, and the Boston Municipal Court System focused on increasing access to psychiatric services and decriminalizing mental health.
Jodi Sherman, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences
Founding Director, Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability, Yale Center on Climate Change and Health
Jodi Sherman, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology of the Yale School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences, and founding director of the Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability in the
Yale Center on Climate Change and Health. Dr. Sherman also serves as the Medical Director of Sustainability for Yale-New Haven Health System. Dr. Sherman is an internationally recognized researcher in the emerging field of sustainability in clinical
care. Her research interest is in life cycle assessment (LCA) of environmental emissions, human health impacts, and economic impacts of drugs, devices, clinical care pathways, and health systems. Her work seeks to establish sustainability metrics,
paired with health outcomes and costs, to help guide clinical decision-making, professional behaviors, and organizational management toward more ecologically sustainable practices to improve the quality, safety and value of clinical care and to protect
public health. Dr. Sherman routinely collaborates with environmental engineers, epidemiologists, toxicologists, health economists, health administrators, health professionals, and sustainability professionals. Dr. Sherman is a member of the Lancet
Countdown on Health and Climate Change and was contributing analyst for the UK National Health Service Net Zero Initiative, and serves on the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative for Decarbonization of the U.S. Health Sector. She is Co-Director
of the Lancet Planetary Health Commission on Sustainable Healthcare.
