STEP Seminar: Planetary Health: A Call for a Great Transition

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Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy
Speaker(s)
Teddie Potter
November 23, 2020 - 12:00 pm CST
- 1:00 pm
Webinar
This lunchtime seminar features Teddie Potter, Director of Planetary Health at the University of Minnesota. Her talk serves as an introduction to the emerging field of Planetary Health, and the careers that will be needed for the Great Transition.

Join us for a lunchtime seminar with Teddie Potter, Director of Planetary Health at the University of Minnesota. Her talk will serve as an introduction to the emerging field of Planetary Health, and the careers that will be needed for the Great Transition. 

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About the Speaker
Dr. Potter is deeply committed to climate change education including co-founding Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate, membership in the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, and membership on the American Academy of Nursing Environment and Public Health Expert Panel. She is a member of the Coordinating Committee of Columbia University’s Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education and a Fellow in the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. She chairs Clinicians for Planetary Health (C4PH) and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Planetary Health Alliance at Harvard. In addition, Dr. Potter is Executive Editor for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies; a peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal promoting interdisciplinary collaboration as a solution for solving society’s grand challenges. 

At the University of Minnesota, Dr. Potter designed and co-teaches an interdisciplinary course titled “The Global Climate Challenge: Creating an Empowered Movement for Change.” In addition, she co-leads a Health Sciences initiative titled, “Climate Change and Health: An Interprofessional Response.” In 2019, Dr. Potter was appointed the first Director of Planetary Health for the School of Nursing.