On May 30, the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will host an event to officially launch its new center. We are excited to announce keynote speeches from John Kerry, former U.S. Secretary of State and Dr. John Holdren, former Science Advisor to President Obama and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. They will join Gina McCarthy, C-CHANGE Director and former U.S. EPA Administrator, Dean Michelle Williams and Co-Directors Dr. Aaron Bernstein and Dr. Joseph Allen in giving remarks on our mission, strategies to broaden support for climate action and our goals to:

• Harness the best available science and support innovative research to advance plans, policies, technologies, and products that benefit public health today while providing sound opportunities to stabilize our climate.
• Build momentum for broad, bold actions by focusing on what matters to each one of us: our children, our family, our community, our country, and our world.
• Transform science into meaningful actions everyone can take to deliver a healthier, more just, and sustainable world.
• Work with scientists across the Harvard Chan School to advance research and educate future leaders in health and climate change.

Speakers:

• Dr. Aaron Bernstein, C-CHANGE Co-Director
• Dr. Joseph Allen, C-CHANGE Co-Director
• Dr. Michelle Williams, Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Dr. John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy at the Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, former Science Advisor to President Obama and former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Gina McCarthy, Director of C-CHANGE and former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
• John Kerry, former U.S. Secretary of State and Massachusetts Senator

RSVP to save your seat [1]. Can’t attend? Watch the [2]livestream [2] starting at 1:00 pm, 5/30.