Project Team and Abstract
Project Team: Robert McClellan, Professor, Active Emeritus, The Dartmouth Institute; W. Carl Cooley, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics; Sarah Crockett, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; and Erich Osterberg, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
Dr. McClellan and co-PIs Drs. Osterberg, Crockett, and Cooley and their team will pilot an intervention in a cohort of pediatric clinics within the Dartmouth Health network and within the curricula of Dartmouth medical students and pediatric residents addressing the impact of climate change on children's health. The project will:
• Elaborate the concept of climate-informed care as a new standard of practice
• Equip pediatric clinics with climate and health-oriented posters that invite conversations
• Create a climate and health "toolkit" that operationalizes climate-informed care for clinicians
• Deliver this "climate and health bundle" to practices through one-hour "lunch and learn" sessions led by two-person teams of experienced clinicians and students
• Use tools of implementation science to prompt clinic system changes necessary to incorporate climate and health conversations into routine care