Following the fireside chat with HHS Secretary Becerra, The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative hosted a panel discussion with voices from inside healthcare on how the industry and healthcare providers are trying to bring about change. With the health sector currently responsible for 8.5 percent of the country’s greenhouse emissions, it’s a big task.
Panelists
Deanna Benner, MSN, APRN
Deanna Benner is a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner at ChristianaCare where she has worked for the past 16 years in an Obstetrical/Gynecological Emergency Setting. Deanna is the co-founder and serves as the Co-Chair of ChristianaCare’s Environmental Sustainability Caregiver Committee where she promotes sustainability initiatives to improve the environmental impact of healthcare delivery. She has also organized and implemented the hospital’s medical supply donation program, and recently led a successful “Climate and Health” conference for caregivers in the State of Delaware. Deanna’s passion is to continue to educate staff and patients on how our health is connected to the way we interact with our
environment. Prior to ChristianaCare, Deanna worked at Nemours Children’s Hospital, and served our nation as a Nurse Corp Officer in the United States Navy. She earned her BSN at Villanova University, and her MSN from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jeremey Greene, MD, PhD
William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and History of Medicine; Director, Institute of the History of Medicine; Director, Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine.
Jeremy's research explores the ways in which medical technologies come to influence our understandings of what it means to be sick or healthy, normal or abnormal, on personal, regional, and global scales. In addition to directing the Institute of the History of Medicine, he is the founding Director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Core Faculty in the Johns Hopkins Drug Access and Affordability Initiative, Associate Faculty at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, a co-Investigator in the Opioid Industry Documents Archive, the Black Beyond Data Project, and the Sawyer Seminar in Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data, and hold joint appointments in the Department of History of Science and Technology and the Department of Anthropology at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
Jeremey's third and most recent book The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth (University of Chicago Press, 2022) examines how changing expectations of instantaneous communications through electric, electronic, and digital media transformed the nature of medical practice and medical knowledge. This present work has been supported by a Faculty Scholars Fellowship from the Greenwall Foundation and a G13 Award from the National Library of Medicine.
Jodi Sherman, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology of the Yale School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences, and founding director of the Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability in the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health. Dr. Sherman also serves as the Medical Director for Yale New Haven Health Center for Sustainable Healthcare.
Dr. Sherman is an internationally recognized researcher in the emerging field of sustainability in clinical care. Her research interest is in life cycle assessment of environmental emissions, human health impacts, and economic impacts of drugs, devices, clinical care pathways, and health systems. Her work seeks to establish sustainability metrics, paired with health outcomes and costs, to help guide clinical decision-making, professional behaviors, and organizational management toward more ecologically sustainable practices to improve the quality, safety and value of clinical care and to protect public health. Dr. Sherman routinely collaborates with environmental engineers, epidemiologists, toxicologists, health economists, health administrators, health professionals, and sustainability professionals. Dr. Sherman is a member of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and was contributing analyst for the UK National Health Service Net Zero Initiative, and serves on the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative for Decarbonization of the U.S. Health Sector. She also co-leads the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare.
Moderator
Joanne Kenen, BA
Commonwealth Fund Journalist-in-Residence. Assistant Lecturer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Joanne is also a member of the HBHI Leadership Team and a Core Faculty Member.
The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative integrates the scholarship across Johns Hopkins University - through a partnership between the Carey Business School, Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Nursing, and School of Medicine - around a shared vision of a healthier America, supported by an affordable and equitable, high-value health system. In pursuit of this vision, our work focuses on the role of business and incentives through rigorous, objective, non-partisan, interdisciplinary research.