Speaker: Dr. Cindy Parker
Topic: Our Food Systems: Moving from Climate Change Problems to Climate Change Solutions—and Getting Healthier Along the Way!

This talk will briefly review the history and current status of our food systems, including their effects on climate change and our health. We’ll take a brief look at how the effects of climate change on food systems have already contributed to hardship and migration around the world. We’ll focus on which specific foods and practices currently contribute the most to climate change and discuss alternatives that are better for our health and cause fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

Bio: Dr. Cindy Parker received her MD from the University of Arizona and practiced Family Medicine in the wilds of New Mexico and Alaska. Realizing that she wanted to keep people healthy, she did a 2^nd residency in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Johns Hopkins, earning a Masters in Public Health with a focus on the health impacts of climate change before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins. Now recently retired, she loves living in this gorgeous place, hiking, biking, and gardening – and still teaches the occasional course in climate change and health.

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