Enhance your climate resilience plan with new guidance

November 19, 2024

Enhance your climate resilience plan with new guidance

Date range
November 19, 2024
1–1:45 pm ET (10–10:45 am PT)
Description

Monitoring and enhancing your climate resilience plan will ensure it remains relevant and valuable as you implement it. This session will provide an overview of health care climate resilience planning basics and share new concepts and elements for inclusion in existing climate resilience plans. Join staff from Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm in facilitated conversations about your climate resilience planning experiences. We will drill down on the obstacles and barriers in your planning efforts and troubleshoot solutions in ongoing peer discussions and planning of future resources.

Moderators
Moderators
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Winslow Dresser

Winslow Dresser

Job Title
Associate Director of Regional Climate Solutions

Organization
Health Care Without Harm

Bio

As a member of Health Care Without Harm’s U.S. Climate and Health team, Dresser’s work focuses primarily on climate mitigation and resilience projects in Massachusetts. Current initiatives in Massachusetts include the Boston Green Ribbon Commission Healthcare Working Group, where partner health care systems collaborate on their latest climate challenges. His background includes natural resource management and community-centric project management. He has an MBA in social impact from Boston University and a B.S. from the University of Maine.

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Kristen Kaufman

Kristen Kaufman

Job Title
Sustainability Strategy Manager

Organization
Practice Greenhealth

Bio

Kristen is a Sustainability Strategy Manager at Practice Greenhealth, where she advises hospitals and health care systems on their sustainability programs and supports place-based initiatives. Prior to Practice Greenhealth, Kristen worked in urban and institutional sustainability, most recently at Tufts University's Office of Sustainability managing zero-waste, community engagement, and environmental justice efforts. She holds a Masters of Science in environmental governance from the University of Oxford and a BA in anthropology and sustainability from Emory University.

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