Centering Health Equity within Climate Action Launch

By Invitation Only

Date and Time

September 21, 2023
12:00 pm-5:00 pm EDT

Location

New York

BSR’s newest collaborative initiative, Centering Health Equity within Climate Action, is launching in-person this Climate Week. This event will bring together collaboration members, including representatives from business, academic, government, and community-based organizations, together to address the climate/health nexus and focus on co-creating collective solutions to center health and health equity within climate change.

Scheduled Speakers

• Seema Wadhwa, Executive Director, Environmental Stewardship, Kaiser Permanente
• Amina Azmat, Manager, Climate Change, BSR
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Amina Azmat
Manager, Climate Change, BSR
Washington, D.C.
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Amina works with partners across industries to develop and implement climate change solutions with a focus on aligning to the sustainable development goals (SDGs). 
Before joining BSR, Amina led internal consulting at the United Nations Foundation, where she provided advisory services to SDG teams. She grew and transitioned new business initiatives into their permanent operating models; oversaw the Foundation’s annual planning, risk management, and due diligence processes; and led strategic initiatives to ensure the Foundation’s programmatic, financial, and operational success. Prior to that, Amina worked on the ground in areas of conflict and migration in the Middle East, and she began her career as a market researcher in the consumer products industry.
Amina holds a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing and minors in International Affairs and Political Science from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She speaks English and Urdu.
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