Cheryl Holder is an associate professor and retired associate dean for diversity, equity, inclusivity and community initiatives at Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. She is also founder and executive director of Florida Clinicians for Climate Action, president of Florida State Medical Association and co-chair of Miami Dade Heat Health Task Force. Dedicated to improving the health of underserved populations, Holder is a National Health Service Corps scholar, internist, and HIV specialist. Previously, she was medical director at Jackson Health System’s North Dade Health Center and served on NIH and CDC health advisory and programmatic review panels. Holder’s TED Talk, “The link between climate change, health and poverty,” has been viewed over 300,000 times.
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The climate crisis is a health crisis. But even as climate change contributes to the global burden of disease, killing roughly 4 million people globally since the turn of the...
More than a third of all heat-related deaths are now attributed to climate change, and lower-income, marginalized communities are often most at risk. In Africa and Athens, hea...