Cecilia Sorensen is the inaugural fellow in the Living Closer Foundation Fellowship in Climate and Health Science Policy. She thinks the threat to humans as a result of climate change is clearly borne out by science, but physicians like her have not been consulted on the matter. Over the past year, she has been presenting to policy makers the science of how climate change will affect the United States. She thinks that climate science will become more popular in schools of medicine

Key Takeaways:

• The University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine has proved itself to be a leader in studying the effects of climate change on health.
• Cecilia Sorensen, MD, is part of that department and she has blazed so much trail in studying the effects of climate change on health.
• She was at Puerto Rico to study the effects of Hurricane Maria on people’s health and has been to Syria-Lebanon border to study environmental change effect on health.

“Sorensen is the inaugural fellow in the Living Closer Foundation Fellowship in Climate and Health Science Policy, a collaborative post-graduate training program offered through CU Anschutz, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Medical Society Consortium of Climate and Health.”

Read more: https://www.cuanschutztoday.org/climate-change-physicians-need-to-be-involved/