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Kendra has over 20 years of experience in human resources and organizational development. She spent the majority of her working career in the professional services industry, cultivating culture and creating a positive and award-winning workplace. Most recently, she worked for a small, minority-owned IT consulting company that provides services to the intelligence community. There, she was recognized for her efforts in executing corporate strategy and achieving results. Kendra has spoken at industry conferences and has facilitated training and leadership development for her colleagues. She… Read More
Type: Staff
Josh works to build a zero emissions, climate resilient, and more equitable health care sector. Since joining Health Care Without Harm in 2005, he has established a series of initiatives including the organization’s Global Green and Healthy Hospitals network. In close collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), Josh spearheaded Health Care Without Harm’s successful worldwide campaign to eliminate mercury in health care and led its more recent work with WHO and the UK COP Presidency to secure commitments from more than 60 governments for sustainable, low-carbon, and climate… Read More
Type: Staff
Amy is an emergency medicine physician and passionate advocate for sustainable health care and planetary health. Inspired by her son, she led her hospital green team for many years and now supports and inspires physicians interested in promoting climate-smart health care. She believes strongly that physicians and the health care sector can lead the way toward a healthy, sustainable future. Amy enjoys travel, plant-based cooking, a good workout, and long walks in the woods with her dogs.
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A public health nurse by training, Kasey completed her doctoral studies in health innovation and leadership at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, focusing on planetary health, global nursing leadership, and health care design. She previously held health care innovation and design roles at the American Nurses Enterprise and Ariadne Labs, as well as roles spanning health care, public health, and nursing education, and has been involved in local, national, and international climate advocacy efforts. She lives just south of Boston and spends her free time volunteering for a local… Read More
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Lara leads our global transformation into a data-driven organization, building organizational capacity for decision-driven analytics. She has been with Health Care Without Harm since 2004 and has also worked in the organization's environmental purchasing program and with health care suppliers.
Type: Staff
Stacia began directing programs at Health Care Without Harm in 2009. She applies systems analysis at the intersection of human and environmental health to ignite the health sector mission to First Do No Harm by accelerating the uptake of procurement, practice, and policy transitions. Prior to working with the organization she led management of hospital food service and clinical nutrition programs in both small and large scale health care facilities. She brings skills in systems analysis and individual behavior change to the design of programmatic strategy within the organization, reaching… Read More
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Christopher has been working in health care sustainability since he graduated from college. His focus is measuring sustainability in the health care sector through data and building expertise in all content areas. He also owns a circular economy consulting firm and was named to GreenBiz's 30 Under 30 list for 2018.
Type: Staff
Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for thirty years. He is Co-Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth. He was also instrumental in bringing together the NGOs and hospital systems that formed the Healthier Hospitals Initiative. All three were created to transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and serve as anchor institutions to support environmental health in their communities.
Cohen is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, India. He is also on the Boards of… Read More
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Tim brings several years of experience in the health care supply chain specializing in the operating room. He brings this experience and a desire to always learn and grow to drive environmental initiatives in health care. He is currently attaining his MBA from Southern New Hampshire University and holds a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Through the pandemic, Tim reacquainted to the natural world and grasped the need to implement sustainability now more than ever.
Type: Staff
Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for more than 35 years, helping to build global coalitions and networks to address health impacts related to climate change and toxic chemical exposure. Cohen is co-founder and president of Health Care Without Harm, created in 1996 to help transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and support the health and climate resilience of communities. Since its inception, the nonprofit has grown to lead and partner on groundbreaking initiatives in more than 72 countries. Cohen was awarded the Champion of Change… Read More
Type: Staff
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