The Climate and Health Nexus: Embedding Equity through Community Engagement

BSR Members Only

Date and Time

September 25, 2024
11:00 am-12:30 pm EDT

Location

New York

We are pleased to invite you to CHEC's event at Climate Week NYC.

The event will emphasize the importance of moving past acknowledging the health and climate nexus to place equity at the center and inspire businesses and communities to work together.

Join CHEC members, including businesses, community-based organizations, and academic partners as they share their on-the-ground experiences and lessons learned and receive an exclusive preview of the "Centering Health Equity within Climate Action' toolkit. 

Important note: The event is now at capacity. BSR members are still welcome to register to be added to the wait-list.

Scheduled Speakers

• Robyn Bussey, Just Health Director, Partnership for Southern Equity
• Phil Dahlin, Global Director of Sustainability, Johnson & Johnson
• Skye Flanigan, Programs Director, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE).
• Jessica Synkoski, Head of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Sodexo North America
• Seema Wadhwa, Executive Director, Environmental Stewardship, Kaiser Permanente
• Deb Gallagher, Director, Climate Change, BSR
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Deb Gallagher
Director, Climate Change, BSR
New York
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Deb leads BSR’s climate work in the US. She works closely with BSR’s external partnership teams to accelerate decarbonization while engendering climate justice. She works with Transform to Net Zero (TONZ) collaborative initiative members to amplify leadership behaviors that promote a just and resilient future. Deb leads efforts to create a series of TONZ Transformation Guides on issues such as climate transition action plans (CTAPs), climate policy engagement, and climate justice.
Prior to joining BSR, Deb was a professor at Duke University, where she led the Business and Environment program. Her research focused on business leadership behaviors required to advance sustainability, including stakeholder relationship management, ESG data acquisition and use, public policy engagement, and design of strategic partnerships. Over the course of 20 years at Duke, she mentored over 200 sustainability leaders. Prior to Duke, she held environmental leadership positions in manufacturing and government.
Deb holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University
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