Lisa Patel

Lisa Patel is Executive Director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford Medicine. A pediatric hospitalist and climate-health advocate, she focuses on children's health, health equity, wildfire and heat impacts, climate policy, and sustainable health care.

Health Care’s Climate Push Moves From Pledges to Accountability

National Academy of Medicine president Victor Dzau and pediatrician Lisa Patel argue that health care’s climate responsibility extends beyond greener buildings to the disease burden, supply chains, procurement, care delivery and community resilience that determine the sector’s footprint. In this Aspen Ideas: Health discussion, they frame climate change as both a growing source of illness and a test of whether hospitals, clinicians and suppliers can make emissions accountability as routine as patient safety.

The Aspen InstituteJun 24, 202619 min read