In recognition of Women in Medicine Month this September, Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health is celebrating female leaders working at the intersection of climate change and medicine.

A summer of record-setting extreme heat, wildfires, hurricanes, and disease outbreaks worsened by global warming has made clear how urgently action is needed to slow climate change and adapt to the health impacts. Women and children often bear some of the greatest health and economic burdens of these disasters. And yet, women frequently lack a seat at the table in critical discussions about climate change. 

A recent publication led by the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health argued that increased female leadership in this space can help increase cooperation and expedite equitable solutions to this global threat. 

Read more at: https://globalhealth.stanford.edu/planetary-health/celebrating-women-leaders-in-climate-and-health.html/