"How Scientists and Healthcare Workers can Improve the Climate Crisis"

 
About Speaker: Dr. Jaggi is currently a Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University and Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She sees parallels between the advances in antimicrobial stewardship and healthcare quality improvement that could be applied to decreasing emissions from the healthcare delivery system. She has completed training with the Climate Reality Project and is completed the Climate Health Organizing Fellows Program through the Center for Health Equity, Education and Advocacy/Cambridge Health alliance. Dr. Jaggi is currently a Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University and Medical director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She sees parallels between the advances in antimicrobial stewardship and healthcare quality improvement that could be applied to decreasing emissions from the healthcare delivery system. She has worked with her hospital system’s administration with a working group to champion environmental sustainability practices. She is an advocate for changing systems that lead to greenhouse gas emissions which harm children’s health and engaging scientists and healthcare workers in advocacy in the community.