The Health Benefits workstream focuses on making the human health and health-economic arguments for accelerating fossil fuel phase-out, understanding that communities in the Global South already bear a disproportionate burden of fossil fuel-related harms. It also invites governments to work with members of the health community to build public support and political will for phase-out policies.
Edward Maibach is a George Mason University Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus) and the Founding Director (Emeritus) of Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication—a “think-and-do tank” focused on illuminating public engagement in climate change and strategies for enhancing it—where he co-led the development of the U.S. Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health. Dr. Maibach is an elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Climate and Health Alliance. In 2020, Ed was honored by Climate One with the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication. He co-authored the 3rd US National Climate Assessment, and he previously served as an Associate Director of the National Cancer Institute and as Worldwide Director of Social Marketing at Porter Novelli International.