Weathering the storm: Designing resilient health systems

[From The Hill] How can the U.S. build a healthcare system that will withstand the ever-increasing threat of extreme weather events? How can hospitals be the last buildings standing – a place of refuge for the community – during a climate emergency?

Earlier this week, the White House organized a high-level roundtable with some of the nation’s leading hospitals to discuss exactly these questions – how we can embed climate resilience and environmental sustainability into our U.S. healthcare system?...(Continue reading)


Gary Cohen is the  president and co-founder of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth