Our Team
Our Team
Who We Are
The inter-institutional collaboration among The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE), Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Brigham Women’s Hospital (BWH), University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and Emory University School of Medicine led to the launch of Climate Resources for Health Education (CRHE) and our growing repository.
Directors

Natasha
Sood, MD, MPH
Founder & Executive Director
Brigham and Woman's Hospital
United States

Cecilia
Sorensen, MD
Director, Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

Matthew
Luebke
Project Director
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
United States

Alison
Chang
Project Director
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
United States
Operations Team

Sylvia
Mihailescu
Onboarding & Orientation Lead
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
United States

Ashley
Moore
Onboarding & Orientation Lead
University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing
United States

Jose J.H.
Herrera-Bazan
Onboarding & Orientation Lead
Mexican Secretariat of Health
Mexico

Nisha
Sridhar
Review Lead
Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine
United States

Antea
DeMarsilis, MD
Peer Review Lead
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Joslin Diabetes Center
United States

Marissa
Millwater
Review Lead
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center
United States

Marianne
Sowin
Final Processing Lead
Climate and Health Foundation
United States

Melody
Wu
Evaluations Lead
Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine and Science MSTP
United States
Curriculum Team

Isaac
Alter
Partnerships Lead
Columbia University
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
United States

Neha
Bollam
Partnerships Lead
University of Missouri - Columbia School of Medicine
United States

Meryem
Guler
Partnerships Lead
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
United States

Andrea
McGowan
Implementations and Communications Lead
University of Michigan School of Medicine
United States

Michael
Xie
Implementations and Communications Lead
Baylor College of Medicine
United States

Nivi
Mariappan
Implementations and Communications Lead
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
United States

Mary
Sweeney
Implementations and Communications Lead
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
United States

Gina Friel,
DNP, CRNP-PC
Curricular Domains Lead
Global Nurses Working Group
Annapolis Pediatrics
United States

Jasmine
Bagnas
Regional Lead
Tufts University School of Medicine
United States

Nadia Noreen,
MBBS, MPH, MSc
South East Asia Regional Lead
Health Services Academy
Pakistan

Roxanne
O Doran
South East Asia Regional Lead
Department of Behavioral Sciences
University of the Philippines Manila
Philippines

Lilanga Batawalage,
MBBS, MBA, FRSPH
South East Asia Regional Lead
Warwick University
Sri Lanka

Bunthicha
Larlarb, MS
South East Asia Regional Lead
Kesemrad Maesai Hospital
Thailand

Virginia Borga,
MPH, MS
Latin American Regional Lead
Universidad Catolica De Santa Fe
Argentina

Macarena
Martínez Órdenes
Latin American Regional Lead
Departamento de Promoción de Salud de la Mujer y el Recién Nacido, Universidad de Chile
Chile

Diana
Alcantara-Zapata, PhD
Latin American Regional Lead
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Peru

Ana Laura
Torlaschi, MD
Latin American Regional Lead
Hospital Italiano
Argentina

Wildred
Odongo
African Regional Lead
Clinical Epidemiology Unit
Makerere University
Uganda
Steering Committee

Natasha
Sood, MPH
Founder & Executive Director, CRHE
Anesthesiology Resident, Brigham and Woman's Hospital

Cecilia
Sorensen, MD
Director, Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

Taryn
Sirias, MD
Former Project Director, CRHE
Pediatric Resident
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland

Giovanna
Grigsby-Rocca, MD
Former Project Director, CRHE
General Surgical Resident
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Allan
Ndovu
Project Director, CRHE
Medical Student, UCSF

Wynne
Armand, MD
Associate Director, MGH Center
for the Environment & Health
Associate Physician, MGH Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Gregg
Furie, MD, MHS
Medical Director for Climate and Sustainability at Brigham and Woman's Hospital
Instructor in Medicine, BWH

Jake
Fox, MD, MPH
Pulmonary Critical Care Fellow
University of Colorado

Thomas
Kuczmarski, MD
Hematology & Oncology Fellow
University of Washington

Karly
Hampshire
Founder, Planetary
Health Report Card
Internal Medicine Resident, Columbia University Internal Medicine

Stefan
Wheat, MD
Emergency Medicine Physician Instructor, Department of
Emergency Medicine
University of Washington

Heather
Whelan, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Co-Director Career Advising UCSF School of Medicine
SFVAMC/UCSF

Nick
Iverson, MD
Division of Hospital Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital

Rebecca
Philipsborn, MD, MPA
Director of Climate, Health Education, and Clinical Partnerships
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine

Emaline
Laney, MD, MS
Resident, Internal Medicine
Brigham and Woman's Hospital

Gina Friel,
DNP, CRNP-PC
GCCHE Nurses Fellow
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Annapolis Pediatrics

Barbara
Erny, MD
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine
ASCRS Foundation Medial Liaison

Hayley Blackburn,
PharmD, BCACP
Associate Professor of Pharmacy
University of Montana
Skaggs School of Pharmacy

Benjamin
Rabin
Incoming Resident,
Brigham and Woman's Hospital

Adam
Hain
Associate Director of
Instructional Development
Stanford School of Medicine

Michele Barry,
MD, FACP
Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health - Senior Dean for Global Health at Stanford University

Peter Rabinowitz,
MD, MPH
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Director of the UQ Center for One Health Research

Erika
Veidis
Planetary Health Program Manager for the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health

Soneida Suzanna
Rodrguez
REACH Postbaccalaureate Scholar, Stanford School of Medicine

Mohamed
Snow
Stanford School of Medicine