Climate Change and Health: Introduction & Physician Call to Action

Recorded On: 08/10/2022

Completion of this activity will allow learners to define basic climate principles; identify major climate trends; identify climate impacts on human health; and relate health inequity to climate impacts. This program was originally recorded on August 10, 2022.

Mary Schaefer Badger, DO, FACOI, FAWM

Chair of the ACOI Climate and Health Committee

Retired

Mary Schaefer Badger D.O., F.A.C.O.I., F.A.W.M. is a Board-Certified Internal Medicine Specialist. She is a Fellow of both the American College of Osteopathic Internists and the Academy of Wilderness Medicine.

After medical school at Heritage-OUCOM, she did a general rotating internship and Internal Medicine Residency (Chief Resident) at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.

She received the US Public Health Service Distinguished Service Award for her work with the Navajo, before practicing in Spokane for 31 years. (Spokane’s Best Doctors 2018, 2019, 2020). She received the Albertus Magnus College Alumni of the year award in 2023 for her work in COVID response and Disaster Response in Washington.

Since retiring from Kaiser Permanente, she has been volunteering with the Medical Reserve Corps including the COVID response team,serving on Spokane County Disaster Response Team and lecturing on climate change and health. She is the chair of the ACOI Climate and Health Committee.