Panel + Breakouts: Aligning policy with environmental health & justice

The health care sector is at the center of addressing the climate and COVID-19 crises and the longstanding health inequities due to systemic racism. The Biden-Harris Administration is prioritizing these issues and states are pursuing ambitious policies to address environmental injustice. Hospitals have been investing in emergency preparedness, climate resilience, building and energy decarbonization, healthy food, and safer chemicals with the goal of affecting sector change. However, program implementation has been hampered by a lack of supportive policies.  

In this session, you will hear from a panel of leaders from across the health care sector – working in health systems, a medical association, state government, and the Biden-Harris Administration – and participate in breakout sessions to discuss policies that will help advance the transformation to a low-carbon, healthy, and equitable health care system and society. 

Breakout Rooms
1. Climate Preparedness and Resilience - Join us in a discussion about current federal policies on health care resilience and preparedness, and the importance of providing input to policymakers and regulators.

2. Resilient Food Systems - Learn about current food policy opportunities and tools to leverage your voice and the health care sector to make connections between humans and ecological health for lawmakers to take action.

3. Safe Chemicals - Learn about key prinicples that can aid in the development of policies to regulate chemicals, shift the economy to safer products, and protect people and their communities from the effects and inequities associated with the generation, use, and disposal of hazardous chemicals.

4. Building and Energy Decarbonization - Learn why health care must engage in energy and building decarbonization advocacy to address health care's unique energy needs, advance health system climate goals, and support energy equity.
CE - Continuing Education

This session qualifies for the following continuing education credit:
ACCME: 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

ANCC: 1.5 contact hours
ACCO: NO CE
ACHE: TBD
AIA: NO CE
AHRMM: 1.5 CEC
CDR: TBD

For information on how to claim your CE credit, please click the “CE Information” button on the Swapcard homepage.