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Climate Change & Health: Introduction and Physician Call to Action
Climate Change & Health: Introduction and Physician Call to Action- Mary Badger, DO, FACOI, FAWM
Climate change is a stress multiplier putting increased pressure on vulnerable systems, populations, and regions. It compounds already existing medical conditions and health disparities.
The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change concluded that addressing climate change is the greatest public health opportunity of the 21st century, and failure to adequately address it could undo most of the progress in global health over the past century. The 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Impacts report confirmed this, stating that climate and health care are inseparable.
As physicians and as patients ourselves, it is important to understand these impacts so we can do something about them. This lecture serves as an introduction as well as a call for action.
The Washington Osteopathic Medical Association is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association as a Category 1 CME Sponsor.
The WOMA strives to provide continuing medical education programs to fulfill the needs of the attendees and to meet the AOA Uniform Guidelines and AOA Accreditation Requirements. Comments, questions, or complaints should be forwarded to WOMA Executive Director Roseanne Andersen, by calling the WOMA office at 425-677-3930, by mail to WOMA P.O. Box 1187 Gig Harbor, WA 98332 , or by email to executivedirector@woma.org.
Dr. Badger is a Board-Certified Internal Medicine Specialist. She is a Fellow of both the American College of Osteopathic Internists and the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. After medical school at Heritage-OUCOM, she did a general rotating internship and Internal Medicine Residency (Chief Resident) at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. She received the US Public Health Service Distinguished Service Award for her work with the Navajo, before practicing in Spokane for 31 years. (Spokane’s Best Doctors 2018, 2019, 2020). She received the Albertus Magnus College Alumni of the year award in 2023. Since retiring from Kaiser Permanente, she has been volunteering with the Medical Reserve Corps including the COVID response team and lecturing on climate change and health. She is the chair of the ACOI Climate and Health Committee.
