About Code Green: The Climate-Smart Health Professional
How does climate change affect health? And what can medical professionals do about it?
Those are the very questions we hope to answer here on Code Green: The Climate-Smart Health Professional. In each episode of this series, we’ll highlight the intersections of climate change and health by exploring patient case studies that exemplify the climate-health nexus and by spotlighting planetary health curriculum initiatives at medical schools around the world.
Hosted, produced, and edited by Isha Thapar and Dhivya Arasappan.
21. Disposability in Health Care (with Dr. Jeremy Greene)
We are kicking off our new “Sustainability Series” with Jeremy Greene, MD PhD. Dr. Greene is physician-historian and the founding Director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. In this episode, we speak about the shift towards the increasing disposability of medical technology and solutions to reduce the global impact of medical waste.
Resources mentioned:
• Hypodermics on the Shore, The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/hypodermic-needles-disposable-syringes-washed-up-beaches/675167/
• Why are plastic syringes not being recycled?, The Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01333-9/abstract
• After the Single Use Project: https://aftersingleuse.net/
• The PASS-UP model: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.7326/ANNALS-25-01264
Episode written and produced by Dhivya Arasappan and Isha Thapar, and edited by Isha Thapar.
1 Dec 2025
20. Climate Work Amid Political Uncertainty (with Dr. John Balbus)
In this episode we talk with Dr. John Balbus, a tireless climate advocate and the inaugural director of the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity within HHS. In the last year, the climate movement has faced many setbacks requiring more resilience, courage, and joy. In this conversation, we explore how to support this work and these feelings amid uncertainty, while charting through Dr. Balbus' illustrious career.
Episode Written by Phoebe Cunningham and Elizabeth Whidden, Produced by Natasha Sood, and Edited by Liana Haigis and Dhivya Arasappan.
9 Sept 2025
19. MS4SF Climate Health Equity Day
In this episode, we bring you “on the ground” interviews from Medical Students for a Sustainable Future’s 2025 Climate Health Equity Day conference. We spoke with medical students, organizers, and advocates about their experiences at the conference, the urgent need for climate-informed health policy, and how future physicians are mobilizing for planetary health justice.
These conversations capture the energy and vision of the next generation of healthcare leaders working to center equity in climate and health.
Episode written and hosted by Phoebe Cunningham and Elizabeth Whidden, produced by Natasha Sood, and edited by Liana Haigis.
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