Development of a center for the environment and health at a large academic medical center

Abstract

Climate change and environmental decline are of increasing concern to clinicians as well as hospital leadership. Here we provide the organization, structure, specific goals, and metrics for a newly created Center for the Environment and Health at one academic medical center, which was created to address these complex and intersecting threats to human health.

Keywords

• Climate change
• Public health
• Health care delivery
• Carbon footprint
• Environmental health
• Academic medicine