11. Community Resilience and Physician Advocacy (with Dr. Lisa Patel)

We’re releasing this episode from the archives (recorded in 2021) – an interview between Dr. Lisa Patel and our podcast editor & Brown University student, Liana Haigis.

Dr. Patel is the Executive Director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and a Clinical Associate Professor in Pediatrics for Stanford Children's Health. This episode’s conversation covers a lot of ground, including the unique vulnerabilities of pediatric patients to climate change, wildfires & hospital power outages, and community resilience. Dr. Patel discusses key learnings about environmental justice and physician advocacy, her focus areas.

Below are two articles that she highlights in this episode:
- Confronting Carbon Inequality  https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/confronting-carbon-inequality
- Reparations as a Public Health Priority – A Strategy for Ending Black-White Health Disparities  https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2026170