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Advancing climate-smart health care from the front lines

As trusted leaders, health professionals have a unique opportunity to advance health care sustainability and influence policies to protect the health of their patients and the broader community

With the help of generous donors, Health Care Without Harm supports emerging and established clinical health professional leaders, leveraging their influence and expertise to advance the growing health care sustainability movement and create climate-smart health care through mitigation, resilience, and leadership

The Emerging Physician Leader Award and Scholarship

Medical students, residents, or fellows

Recognizes demonstrated passion for sustainable health care or a commitment to climate and health leadership.

The Blair and Georgia Sadler Fellowship

Early-career clinicians

An opportunity for emerging clinical health leaders who want to work on equitable, climate-smart health care in their institutions and communities.

The Climate and Health Science Policy Fellowship

Physicians

Empowers and trains physicians to be credible, influential, and knowledgeable climate and health thought leaders.

Charlotte Brody Award

Nurses

Like its namesake, renowned nurse activist Charlotte Brody, the award recognizes those who go beyond everyday nursing endeavors to proactively promote and protect environmental health.


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Make a donation to the Climate action fund for health professionals.

The Emerging Physician Leader Award and Scholarship

The Emerging Physician Leader Award and Scholarship was established in 2018 by the Health Care Without Harm Physician Network, recognizing the importance of mentoring and supporting the next generation of physician sustainability champions.

The award recognizes a medical student, resident, or fellow who has demonstrated a passion for sustainable health care or a commitment to climate and health leadership. Thanks to our generous donors, we have awarded many scholarships since 2019.

Opportunities for medical students, residents, or fellows

Award recipients will receive:

  • Free registration to CleanMed Atlanta from May 6-8
  • Up to three nights in the CleanMed Atlanta conference hotel
  • Reimbursement of travel expenses up to $600 for transportation to and from the conference
  • A $1,000 grant to support a project that aligns with the goals of the Health Care Without Harm Physician Network to support physician and medical student action to reduce the environmental impact of health delivery and promote climate-smart health care through mitigation, resilience, and leadership

This year the award is offered by Health Care Without Harm in collaboration with the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Applications for the 2025 award are closed. Winners will be announced at CleanMed.

Terms & guidelines

Previous recipients of the Sadler Fellowship, the Emerging Physician Leader Award or the Stephanie Davis Waste Reduction and Pollution Prevention Award and Scholarship are not eligible for this year’s award. 

Celebrating our award recipients


The Blair and Georgia Sadler Fellowship

Thanks to a generous gift from Blair and Georgia Sadler, Health Care Without Harm established the annual Blair and Georgia Sadler Fellowship in 2022, providing an opportunity for emerging clinical health leaders who want to work on equitable, climate-smart health care in their institutions and communities.

Each year, Health Care Without Harm will select an annual cohort of early-career clinicians for this fellowship and connect them with each other, internal and external subject matter experts, and our partner health systems to support their ideas and growth. The Blair and Georgia Sadler Fellowship participants will be equipped with tools for climate and sustainability-related education, organizing, communications, research, and leadership that they can put to use throughout their careers.

“The next generation of clinical health professionals want to be prepared to care for patients in a changing climate, from gaining an understanding of how climate change impacts health, to acquiring knowledge about opportunities to reduce health care’s climate impact, and learning how to prepare for disruptions in patient care due to extreme weather events. The Sadler Fellowship is an exciting opportunity to support and mentor the next generation of clinical sustainability leaders and provide them with the tools and knowledge to advocate for more sustainable and equitable health care.”

Fellows receive a full scholarship to attend CleanMed and a $1,000 grant to complete a project that aims to demonstrate scalable solutions that can be shared with our health care network, broader academic circles, and the general public.

Fellows will have an advisory group at Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth for mentorship during the fellowship year, and will be supported in writing an article or op-ed for local press or a media site about the need for health care to focus on climate, health, and equity. In addition, fellows will be encouraged to submit articles for publication in select journals and present work at conferences. Upon completion, these leaders will join a cohort of past fellows.

Applications for the 2025 award are closed. Winners will be announced at CleanMed.

Requirements

Previous recipients of the Sadler Fellowship, the Emerging Physician Leader Award or the Stephanie Davis Waste Reduction and Pollution Prevention Award and Scholarship are not eligible for this year’s award. 

Celebrating our award recipients


The Climate and Health Science Policy Fellowship

The University of Colorado School of Medicine established the nation’s first graduate medical education physician fellowship in climate medicine, the Climate and Health Science Policy Fellowship, to empower and train physicians to be credible, influential and knowledgeable climate and health thought leaders. This fellowship recognizes the critical role of physicians as powerful climate and health educators, communicators, researchers and policy advocates as concern about the climate crisis, its health impacts, and the climate footprint of the health care sector are increasing.

During the fellowship year, each fellow works with both a federal agency and one of several nonprofit organizations, including Health Care Without Harm. Each year, one to two fellows will be placed with Health Care Without Harm and work with the staff from the organization’s various programs, depending on their interests and fellowship goals.

Details and application

Celebrating our fellows


The Charlotte Brody Award

The Charlotte Brody Award is presented jointly by Health Care Without Harm Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. The award’s namesake comes from the founder of Health Care Without Harm, a registered nurse and dedicated activist for environmental health. Awardees are recognized for their significant contributions to advancing environmental health. Specifically, applicants are evaluated on the basis of the following criteria:

  • Leadership in improving environmental health practices, policies, and education
  • Social, political, and/or professional activism on behalf of people, their health, and the environment
  • Efforts to increase the visibility of nurses and their important and effective role in addressing environmental health issues

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