Training clinicians to be organizers: Expanding professional identities through a year-long Climate Health Organizing Fellowship

Jonathan D. Shaffer, Predrag Stojicic, Danny McCormick, Alanna Kate Cruz, Zobayer Ahmmad and Gaurab Basu

Social Science & Medicine, 2025, vol. 381, issue C

Abstract: The climate crisis and its harmful effects on human health are staggering. It is motivating clinicians to transform their scope of practice. Physicians and other clinicians are on the front lines of managing a growing surge of illness and injury directly caused by increasingly extreme temperatures, weather, and ecological transformation. But the joint institutional constraints of clinician socialization through training and the labor conditions of health care delivery tend to obfuscate and disincentivize the array of possible practical strategies for meaningful, collective intervention in the climate health crisis. How do clinical professionals respond?

Keywords: Climate health; Hidden curriculum; Community organizing; Expertise; Professional authority (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118278

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