Josh Karliner helps lead Health Care Without Harm’s worldwide systems change efforts to build a zero emissions and climate resilient health care sector. He has coordinated HCWH’s international work since 2005, co-creating and developing of the organization’s Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network, with members now in 76 countries. Closely collaborating with the World Health Organization, Josh also led HCWH’s successful worldwide campaign to eliminate mercury in healthcare. He is author of two books along with a wide variety of academic and popular publications on global environmental and health policy. Josh is a member of the board of directors of the Global Climate and Health Alliance, and the Save the Waves Coalition. He lives in San Francisco, USA.
Caribbean, Central America, Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Eastern Asia, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, North America, Oceania, South America, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa
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