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.

Project Directors

Allan
Ndovu

University of California, San Francisco
United States

Taryn
Sirias

University of California, San Francisco
United States

Operations Team

James
Sullivan

Onboarding & Orientation Lead
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
United States

Michelle
DePhillips, DNP

Onboarding & Orientation Lead
University of Deleware
United States

Allison
Williams

Peer Review Lead
University of Ottawa
Canada

Vanessa
Bournival

Peer Review Lead
University of Ottawa
Canada

Caellagh
Catley

Expert Review Lead
University of Washington, St. Louis
United States

Noah
Rosenberg

Expert Review Lead
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
United States

Kate
Tokareva

Resource Mapping
University of Washington School of Medicine
United States

Sukrut
Sonty

Resource Mapping
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
United States

Marianne
Sowin

Final Processing Lead
Climate and Health Foundation
United States

Sara
Weinberg

Communications & Website Lead
Boston University
United States

Kayla
Pangilinan

Communications & Website Leads
Virginia Commonwealth University
United States

Curriculum Team

Tarek
Ezzine

Partnerships Lead
Faculty of Medicine of Tunis
Tunisia

David
Blitzer

Partnerships Lead
Columbia University - Irving Medical Center
United States

Mehul
Tejani, MD

Curricular Domains Lead
Emory University School of Medicine
United States

Joy
Song

Curricular Domains Lead
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
United States

Vennela
Avula

Curricular Domains Lead
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
United States

Natasha
Sood, MPH

Curricular Domains Lead
Health Systems Science
Brigham and Woman's Hospital
United States

Gina Friel,
DNP, CRNP-PC

Curricular Domains Lead
Global Nurses Working Group
Annapolis Pediatrics
United States

Hayley Blackburn,
PharmD, BCACP,
BC-ADM

Curricular Domains Lead
Pharmacy
University of Montana
United States

Sara Oerther
PhD, M.Ed, RN

Curricular Domains Lead
Inter-Professional Education (IPE)
Saint Louis University
United States

Lekha Rathod
MBBS,MSc

Curricular Domains Lead
Inter-Professional Education (IPE)
University Medical Center Utrecht
Netherlands

Adam
Hain, DET

Curricular Domains Lead
Health Equity
Stanford University School of Medicine
United States

Lindi Close,
RN, MHLP

Curricular Domains Lead
Quality Improvement (QI)
University of British Columbia
Canada

Anne Tempel,
PA-C, MS

Curricular Domains Lead
Physician Assistant
George Washington University
United States

Madihah Ahmad
Puaad, MD

Curricular Domains Lead
South East Asia Reginal Hub
Ministry of Health/Angsana Health
Malaysia

Nadia Noreen,
MBBS, MPH, MSc

Curricular Domains Lead
South East Asia Reginal Hub
Health Services Academy
Pakistan

Ameera Ba-Fadhel,
MBBS, MPH

Curricular Domains Lead
South East Asia Reginal Hub
IIHMR University
Yemen & India

Bunthicha
Larlarb, MS

Curricular Domains Lead
South East Asia Reginal Hub
Kesemrad Maesai Hospital
Thailand

Lilanga Batawalage,
MBBS, MBA, FRSPH

Curricular Domains Lead
South East Asia Reginal Hub
Warwick University
Sri Lanka

Virginia Borga,
MPH, MS

Curricular Domains Lead
South America Reginal Hub
Universidad Catolica De Santa Fe
Argentina

Diana
Alcantara-Zapata, PhD

Curricular Domains Lead
South America Reginal Hub
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Peru

Ana Laura
Torlaschi, MD

Curricular Domains Lead
South America Reginal Hub
Hospital Italiano
Argentina

Nicola
Ewen

Learning Objective Lead
Ministry of Health, Jamaica
Jamaica

Neha
Pondicherry

Learning Objective Lead
University of California, San Francisco
United States

Iqra
Nadeem

Learning Objective Lead
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
United States

Mitch
Singstock

Implementation Lead
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
United States

Angel
Zhang

Implementation Lead
Stanford University School of Medicine
United States

Evelyn
Bigini

Implementation Lead
University of California, San Francisco
United States

Steering Committee

Allan
Ndovu

Project Director, CRHE
Medical Student, UCSF

Taryn
Sirias

Project Director, CRHE
Medical Student, UCSF

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

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

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