General Monthly Meeting: Effects of Climate Change on Human Health

The doors open at 7:00 PM, and the program starts at 7:30 PM. Everyone is welcome.

GENERAL MEETING:
Effects of Climate Change on Human Health with speaker Brett Perkison

Brett Perkison is a board certified physician in family medicine and occupational medicine. His lecture will present an overview of climate change's effects on human health, and how employers can reduce carbon emissions as part of workplace wellness programs.

Brett Perkison is an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and has a joint appointment at the University of Texas Health Science Center in the department of Family Medicine.

In addition to his clinical and teaching responsibilities he is active in research and his areas of interest include identifying environmental triggers of asthma and implementing holistic worksite wellness programs that include increasing employee environmental awareness and sustainability. He also is a fellow in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). He is a former chair and active member of ACOEM's Environmental Section Committee and over the last year has been the lead member of the committee's work group to draft ACOEM's position regarding climate change mitigation.