Join us virtually for our Climate, Environment, and Health monthly series.
Speaker:
Rose H. Goldman, M.D., M.P.H.
Director of Faculty Affairs, Dept of Medicine,
Cambridge Health Alliance
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Overview:
Dr. Goldman is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She started the occupational and environmental health program at Cambridge Hospital (now Cambridge Health Alliance) and served as the founding Chief of the Division of Occupational & Environmental Medicine. Her career combines clinical occupational and environmental medicine with public health and education. Since the 1980’s she has focused on bridging clinical practice with public health, targeting the practical integration of preventing, recognizing and treating illnesses related to work, environment, and most recently, climate. She has authored numerous publications, and given presentations related to the integration of occupational/environmental health into clinical practice and education, as well as to the recognition and treatment of clinical toxicological illnesses (metals). In addition to workers, she has brought attention to pediatric environmental health issues and has served as the Associate Director for the New England Pediatric Environmental Health Special Unit. As an ardent and experienced educator, she teaches courses at Harvard’s Schools of Medicine, and Public Health, and has developed and implemented educational innovations involving participatory teaching methods.