[Sustainability-listserv-f] faculty and student leadership opportunities with the UC Center for Climate, Health and Equity

[Michael Dawson]

The new systemwide UC Center for Climate, Health and Equity is accepting applications for faculty and student leadership role across the education, research, policy, and operational pillars. Please share the attached call for applications with faculty and students at your health system or campus who may be interested.

For more details and to apply contact climatehealth at ucsf.edu<mailto:climatehealth at ucsf.edu>.

Thanks,
Matt

Matt St.Clair, LEED Fellow, CEM (he/him/his)
Chief Sustainability Officer
UC Office of the President

Matthew.StClair at ucop.edu<mailto:Matthew.StClair at ucop.edu>; 510-287-3897; http://ucop.edu/sustainability<http://ucop.edu/sustainability/index.html>

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Faculty Engagement



Pillar Co-Chairs

As part of the CCHE leadership team, and working with the UC-CCHE directors, pillar co-chairs will be responsible for supporting the development of the near- and long-term priorities, vision, and direction for their respective pillar. The pillar co-chair will be responsible for playing an active support role, together with UC-CCHE leadership, in fundraising for pillar activities including identifying funding opportunities aligned with pillar strategy, engaging writing teams, and supporting proposal development. Pillar co- chairs will oversee and execute projects within the pillar, with the goal of expanding the scale and impact of the pillar in line with the Center’s overall strategic vision and goals. The pillar co- chairs will be responsible for engaging faculty from across the UC system and for maintaining a pipeline of undergraduate and graduate students that will contribute to UC-CCHE activities. Note: The pillar co- chairs will work in close coordination with each other and Center directors to align activities.

The pillar co- chairs carry out the following activities: (1) Support the creation of a vision and strategy for the pillar. (2) Conduct and/or facilitate high-impact projects that can be leveraged to grow the pillar’s funding and impact in future years. (3) Co-chair, with guidance from CCHE Directors, the UC-CCHE Pillar (e.g., Education, Policy) Committee. (4) Actively support pillar fundraising efforts. Pillar co-chairs will meet regularly with the CCHE leadership team and other pillar leaders in the UC system to develop a strategy that can guide fundraising, partnerships, and future pillar activities.



Education Pillar Co-Chair

In addition to overall strategy, partnerships, and fundraising, the Education Pillar Co-Chair will oversee the following projects during the 2022 – 2023 year:

  *   Oversee a Student Ambassadorship Program for Climate and Health Education which aims to create student-faculty partnerships in which health science students and faculty to develop high quality climate and health content in health science training
  *   Partner with a student initiative to launch a UC-wide needs assessment to inspire stronger climate-health and sustainable healthcare education engagement and accountability in UC’s health professional schools
  *   Help develop a clinical Sustainability Fellowship Program to train and support four Fellows to implement program or policy changes designed to reduce their department’s carbon footprint.





Policy Pillar Co-Chair

In addition to overall strategy, partnerships, and fundraising, the policy pillar co-leads will oversee the following projects during the 2022 – 2023 year:

  *   Landscape of health and health equity integration within California’s climate action plans
  *   Regional policy workshops to advance community action partnerships on climate and health
  *   Policy research on critical and timely climate, health and equity policy discussions





Health Systems Pillar Co-Chair

In addition to overall strategy, partnerships, and fundraising, the Health-Systems Pillar co- chairs will oversee the following projects during the 2022 – 2023 year:



  *   Oversee the establishment of Clinical Climate Emergency Response Teams, including the development of an operational plan for public health and clinical emergency response to wildfires and extreme heat in California.
  *   Oversee the establishment of a Clinical Sustainability (decarbonization) Fellowship program, in collaboration with the education pillar.
  *   Support the development of a UC Climate Paramedicine course to teach climate-centered paramedicine skills to prehospital providers, emergency physicians, and US National Parks personnel.






Student Engagement



Student Fellowship 2022 – 23

CCHE hosts a year-long Fellowship to provide student leaders from across UC health professional training schools the opportunity to work alongside UC’s climate and health leaders to advance UC-CCHE’s work and mission. Student Fellows work under the mentorship of the CCHE leadership to lead student engagement activities, contribute to CCHE projects, and engage with all activities of the UC-CCHE.



Throughout the fellowship year, fellows will gain the following skills and knowledge:

  *   Impact of climate change on health, solutions to address climate-related health impacts, and opportunities for the health sector to address climate change.
  *   Advocacy, community engagement, and effective communication on climate change and health to diverse audiences (including students, academic leadership, and community partners).
  *   Leadership and program development within the academic and health system settings.


Planetary Health Report Card Student Lead Coordinator 2022-23
The Planetary Health Report Card<http://phreportcard.org> (PHRC) is a student-led, metric-based initiative to evaluate and inspire planetary health in health professional schools. Originally founded in 2019 at the University of California San Francisco, the initiative's global community now includes over 450 students in 80 medical schools spanning 7 countries. Over the next year, the UC-CCHE is partnering with the PHRC to conduct needs assessments at the 7 University of California medical school programs, as well as to establish metrics for additional health professional programs.

We are now accepting applications for a Cross-UC Coordinator to lead this project! This is a funded role that would involve serving on the PHRC leadership board as a regional lead (role description here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ki00ljzrfKoUzlHd1OqxdZwrcHEaaogBzbTjk275z3E/edit>), overseeing implementation teams at the 7 UC medical school programs, and convening UC-wide experts to draft metrics for additional health professional programs. Please reach out to karly.hampshire at ucsf.edu<mailto:karly.hampshire at ucsf.edu>for more information and apply here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWqg5iD3mAbtcvcwxKp9RE-pcwDvDJvYeFIAXwJNvldAl1yA/viewform> by July 1st.

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