The Climate Crisis is affecting all of us. As oncology pharmacists, we are on the front lines.
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Advocacy organizations mentioned during this episode of the podcast:
- QID Climate Pharmacy Network
Information and additional resources mentioned during this episode of the podcast:
- WHO Climate change and health overview
- CDC Climate and Health overview: Climate Effects on Health
- Harvard Climate and Health self-paced program
- A great book recommendation: What Can I Do? by Jane Fonda
Oncology-specific topics mentioned during this episode of the podcast:
- The Lancet Oncology: Cancer and Climate Change
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Climate Change and Cancer
- The effect of natural disasters on cancer care: a systematic review by PubMed
- Carbon offsets: the popular climate change mitigation tactic by Vox
- The airline industry versus healthcare industry emissions
Guest for this episode: Shellyza Sajwani
Shellyza Moledina Sajwani is the current Chair of the Ottawa Hospital Pharmacy Environmental Stewardship Committee, and identifies as an oncology pharmacist working within both climate change and global health settings.
Shellyza completed her Masters of Pharmacy at Aston University, and later completed a PharmD at the University of Toronto and was recognized by the Canadian Association of Pharmacy in Oncology with a poster for her project in Gulu, Uganda on the safe and effective use of chemotherapy in a pediatric oncology population. Shellyza has also recently completed a certification from Yale University within Climate and Health.
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