Renee Salas

Renee Salas
Alma materHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University, Saint Mary’s College
Scientific career
FieldsEmergency Medicine, Climate change and the Health System
InstitutionsMassachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Renee N. Salas is an American medical doctor who is an attending physician in Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, and the Yerby Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.[1][2] She was previously the Burke Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute, where she remains one of the Affiliated Faculty.[3]

Salas leads efforts to make physicians and hospitals become more active in their response to climate change.[4][5][6] She was senior author of the 2022 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change U.S. Brief and lead author of previous U.S. Lancet Countdown briefs in 2021, 2020, 2019[7][8][9] and 2018.[10] She has worked with The New England Journal of Medicine both as a co-director for the first Climate Crisis and Clinical Practice Symposium, held in 2020, and as an NEJM guest editor on climate change and health.[11][3]

Salas serves on the planning committee for the Climate Change and Human Health Initiative of the National Academy of Medicine, and has testified before Congress' House Committee on Oversight and Reform.[12] In 2021 Salas was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) for her work on climate change, health and the health care system.[13]

  1. ^ "Renee Salas, MD, MS, MPH - Department of Emergency Medicine". Massachusetts General Hospital. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  2. ^ Johnson, Steven Ross (June 24, 2022). "The Demographics of Disaster". U.S. News & World Report - The Report. pp. C21–C25. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Renee N. Salas". Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. September 5, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  4. ^ Boyle, Patrick (November 14, 2022). "Sicker patients serve as clarion call for doctors to take on climate change". AAMC News. Association of American Medical Colleges. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  5. ^ "Renee Salas, MD, MPH, MS, on intersection of health and the climate crisis". AMA Moving Medicine Video Series. American Medical Association. January 20, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  6. ^ "Dr. Renee Salas Discusses Global Warming's Health Effects On Children (June 18th) - The Healthcare Policy Podcast ® Produced by David Introcaso". The Healthcare Policy Podcast. June 19, 2019. Archived from the original on August 8, 2019. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  7. ^ "Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Policy Brief for the U.S." Harvard Global Health Institute. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  8. ^ Miller, Naseem S. (October 27, 2021). "Finding local stories in The Lancet's health and climate change report". The Journalist's Resource. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
  9. ^ "The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change". The Lancet. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  10. ^ Salas, Renee N.; Knappenberger, Paige; Hess, Jeremy (November 28, 2018). 2018 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change Brief for the United States of America. London, United Kingdom: American Public Health Association.
  11. ^ "Renee Salas, MD, MS, MPH: NEHI Innovator in Health". Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI). December 2, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
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  13. ^ "Renee Salas, Howie Frumkin elected to the National Academy of Medicine for climate work". C-CHANGE | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. October 18, 2021. Retrieved January 10, 2023.