Publications & Websites
Publications
These publications relate to healthcare sustainability and climate medicine in OBGYN. Please email us at obg4sf@gmail.com if you would like to add articles. See also Health Care Without Harm Publications Page for publications outside the scope of OBGYN.
Sustainable Health Care in OBGYN
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Environmental Impacts of Surgical Procedures: Life Cycle Assessment of Hysterectomy in the United States (Thiel, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2014)
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A comparative carbon footprint analysis of disposable and reusable vaginal specula (Donahue, AJOG, 2020)
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Life cycle assessment perspectives on delivering an infant in the US (Campion, Science of Total Environment, 2012)
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Life cycle assessment of stainless-steel reusable speculums versus disposable acrylic speculums in a university clinic setting: a case study (Rodriguez Morris, Evironmental Research Communications, 2022)
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Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Laparoscopic Surgery (Thiel, Am J Public Health, 2018)
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Menstrual products: A comparable Life Cycle Assessment (Fourcassier, Cleaner Environmental Systems, 2022)
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The Use of Disposable Supplies: Measuring Suburethral Sling Surgical Waste by Cost and Weight (Melnyk, Urogyn, 2023)
Climate Change and Women's Health
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Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta (Ragusa, Environmental International, 2021)
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Air pollution exposure during pregnancy and spontaneous abortion and stillbirth (Grippo, Reviews on Environmental Health, 2017)
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Associations between high temperatures in pregnancy and risk of preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirths: systematic review and meta-analysis (Chersich, BMJ, 2020)
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Reducing Prenatal Exposure to Toxic Environmental Agents ACOG Committee Opinion, July 2021
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The Impact Of Global Warming On Women's Health International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, February 2023
Commentaries in OBGYN
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Sustainability in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Wright, Ob&Gyn, 2023)
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Going Green in Gynecology: A Call to Action (Melnyk, AJOG, 2023)
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Sustainability in Healthcare: A Call to Action for Surgeons and Healthcare Leaders (Schwartz, JMIG, 2022)
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Addressing OR sustainability: How we can decrease waste and emissions (Wright, OBG Manag, 2023)
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Addressing Sustainability in the Operating Room (Melnyk, Urogyn, 2023)
Websites
GENERAL RESOURCES
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Practice Greenhealth Topics and Initiatives - fact sheets, education on topics such as water, waste, energy, greening the OR, etc
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Health Attribution Library – A database of studies that detect attribution of climate change impacts on human health
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Yale / Lancet Center on Sustainable Healthcare
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Physician Response to Climate Change Editorial
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Lancet Planetary Health
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Commonwealth Fund How Clinicians Can Lead on Climate Action
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U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit
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NIH Reducing the Climate Impact of Clinical Care
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Joint Commission and Sustainable Healthcare
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National Academy of Medicine Resources
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MEDICAL EDUCATION
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Medical School Curricula and Climate Health opinion piece
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A guide to climate and health curriculum reform in medical schools from Medical Students for Sustainable Future
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CONFERENCES
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CleanMed - national environment conference for leaders in health care sustainability
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The Path to Climate-Smart Net-Zero Health Care: A Grand Rounds Series - presented by Health Care Without Harm in partnership with the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, virtual grand rounds series
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Medical Society Consortium Annual Meeting
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SOCIETIES & UNIVERSITIES
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Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health - brings together associations representing clinicians for advocacy. Nice resource to find other advocacy groups near you.
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FIGO Climate Crisis and Health - resources and webinars as well addressing climate crisis and women’s/maternal health
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Climate for Health - Climate for Health is a national initiative led by a diverse network of health leaders
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Columbia University Collaborative for Climate and Womens Health
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Physicians for Social Responsibility
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ​
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PLASTICS
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Plastic Pollution Coalition - resources and articles addressing the plastic crisis and human health
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Microplastics and the environment Matt Simon interview with the Plastic Pollution Coalition or read his book here
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Plastic Pollution Coalition Webinars here
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Phthalates and Preterm Birth paper
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Matt Simon video explaining Microplastics here
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Dr. Leonardo Trasande discusses health impacts of Plastics/EDC and health cost/burden here
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Dr. Leonardo Trasande book Sicker, Fatter, Poorer here
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Plastic People documentary here
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Dr Jane van Dis discussing microplastics with PhD RIT and U of Rochester researchers here
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Dr. Jane van Dis TikTok discussing plastics, EDCs and health here
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Watch the documentary A Plastic Ocean here
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The Story of Plastic documentary here
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ACOG
Reducing Prenatal Exposure to Toxic Environmental chemicals
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PREGNANCY AND HEAT
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OSHA Pregnant workers and heat safety
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EPA Pregnancy and Heat
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Pregnancy, Heat and risk for Leukemia
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Preterm Delivery and Heat
PSYCHOLOGY
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Good Grief Network nonprofit organization brings people together to metabolize collective grief, eco-distress
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Climate Psychology Alliance practitioners, thinkers, researchers, and artists who believe that attending to the psychology and emotions of the climate and ecological crisis
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FELLOWSHIPS in Climate and Health
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Medical Society Consortium Fellowship
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University of Colorado Fellowship
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Beth Israel Fellowship
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NIH Fellowship
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Columbia Fellowship
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NYU Fellowship