Edward Maibach, Director, Middle for Local weather Change Communication; College, Communication, acquired $250,000 from the Kresge Basis for The Medical Society Consortium on Local weather and Well being.
The mission of the Consortium is to prepare, empower, and amplify the voice of America’s medical doctors to convey how local weather change is harming our well being and the way local weather options will enhance it.
The Consortium engages trusted well being messengers in presenting local weather change as a well being and fairness situation. It contains 30 medical society members and 55 accomplice well being organizations. Its Local weather and Well being Advocates program for particular person activists has 800 enrolled champions.
Funding for this award started in November 2020 and can finish in late October 2021.
