Climate Crisis & Clinical Practice Symposium
February 13, 2020
Keynote
Why the Climate Crisis Matters for Practice

Renee N. Salas, MD, MPH, MS
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard C-CHANGE, Massachusetts General Hospital

Renee N. Salas, MD, MPH, MS is Affiliated Faculty and previous Burke Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) and a Yerby Fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In addition to practicing emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, she is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Salas focuses her career on research, education, and outreach at the intersection of the climate crisis, health, and health care delivery. She served as the lead author on the 2018 and 2019 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change U.S. Brief and leads the Lancet Countdown U.S. Brief Working Group. She engages in research to better understand how climate change is impacting the health care system and evidence-based adaptation. Her work in high impact journals makes novel connections between the climate crisis and health, such as initiatives at the New England Journal of Medicine. She is an invited speaker nationally and internationally, and her work has been featured in media outlets like the New York Times, NPR, Time, Associated Press, CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others. She is the recipient of the Clinician-Teacher Development Award from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Shore Fellowship from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Salas received her Doctor of Medicine and a Master of Science in Clinical Research from the innovative five-year medical school program to train physician-investigators at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. She also received a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a concentration in environmental health.