HBHI Earth Day 2024 Panel Discussion - Addressing Healthcare's Carbon Footprint

The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative hosted a panel discussion with expert voices from inside healthcare on how the industry and healthcare providers are trying to bring about change. The panel featured:

Deanna Benner, MSN, APRN
Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner at ChristianaCare
Co-founder and the Co-Chair of ChristianaCare’s Environmental Sustainability Caregiver Committee

Jeremy Greene, MD
William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and History of Medicine
Director, Institute of the History of Medicine
Director, Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

Jodi Sherman, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences
Founding Director of the Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability in the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health
Medical Director for Yale New Haven Health Center for Sustainable Healthcare
Yale University, School of Medicine

With the health sector currently responsible for 8.5 percent of the country’s greenhouse emissions, it’s a big task.