The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE) has joined forces with Putney Pre-College, an initiative of Putney Student Travel, to host another year of youth summer programming on climate, equity, and health in July 2024.
Channeling Climate Action into Climate Solutions
July 20 — July 27, 2024 | Location: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Dive into issues of climate change, equity, and public health alongside peers, educators, and leading professionals from the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE). Choose an Action Focus based on your interests and explore how climate change is intertwined with public health, medicine, social justice, equity, economics, and policy. Gain perspective from scientists, health practitioners, policymakers, youth activists, climate creatives, and clean energy innovators at the forefront of tackling the climate crisis. Take what you have learned and transform your ideas into a Community Action Plan, and return home ready to address these issues in your own community.
The annual Harvard Chan C-CHANGE Youth Summit trains students to be leaders in their communities through workshops, field-based activities, and meetings with scientists, health and policy experts, academics, energy innovators, and more.
The Youth Summits combine Putney’s extensive history of designing educational and innovative student programs with Harvard Chan C-CHANGE’s leadership putting health and equity at the center of climate actions.
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“The Harvard Chan C-CHANGE summit presented an opportunity to connect with youth from across not just the US but the globe. Our summit occurred in parallel to the hottest temperatures ever recorded on earth, fires and floods battering every corner of the planet, and continual inaction from politicians and the fossil fuel industry. We did not let this stop us, paralyze us, rather we took it as an opportunity to generate community and optimism—the energy that will fuel our movement.” – Finn Does, a 17 year old from San Francisco, California
Guest Speakers for 2024
(More to be confirmed)
Barrak Alahmad MD, MPH, PhD
Research Fellow in the Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk (EER) Program at the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Nicholas Arisco, MS PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global Health and Populations, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Gaurab Basu MD, MPH
Director of Education and Policy at Harvard Chan C-CHANGEPrimary Care Physician and Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy at Cambridge Health Alliance
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Aaron Bernstein MD, MPH
Director, National Center for Environmental Health & Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry at the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionFormer Director, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE
Lindsey C. Burghardt, MD, MPH., FAAP
Chief Science Officer at the Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
Caleb Dresser MD, MPH
Director of Healthcare Solutions, Harvard Chan C-CHANGEEmergency Medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD
Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Massachusetts General HospitalAssociate Director, MGH Center for the Environment and Health
Nicholas T. Zervas Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
Sappho Gilbert, MPH, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Howard Koh MD, MPH
Former Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesProfessor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School
James McKowen
Clinical Director, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Psychologist, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital
Kari Nadeau, MD PhD
Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthJohn Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Interim Director, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE
Ella Niederhelman
Harvard College StudentCommunications Ambassador, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE
Jeffrey Sánchez
Senior Advisor, Rasky PartnersFormer Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
John Quackenbush, PhD
Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Biostatistics
Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Mary B. Rice, MD, MPH
Director, Institute for Lung Health, Massachusetts General HospitalAssociate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Idongesit Sampson
Masters student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
K. “Vish” Viswanath, PhD
Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication in the Department of Social and Behavioral Science, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Jeremy Wortzel, M.D, M.P.H., M.Phil
Psychiatry Resident, Brigham and Women’s HospitalAuthor, The Climate Talk
Harvard Chan School seeks to bring in speakers with a wide range of experiences and perspectives. They’re here to share their own insights; they do not speak for the school or the university.
