About Us:

 

SCCA at UVA is a group of health professional students who recognize the impact of the changing climate on human health and the inequitable distribution of the resulting health burden. As clinicians-in-training, we aim to learn, educate, advocate, and practice medicine with planetary health in mind. In doing so, we will better care for our future patients, communities, and selves.

 

 

How we started:

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SCCA at UVA was founded in the Fall of 2020 when then-second-year medical student Lena Bichell worked on a climate-health summer project. Through this project, we recognized the dearth of climate representation in our curriculum and overall medical experiences and decided to do something about it. Concurrently, the recently founded, national network of MS4SF was recruiting new schools to join their network. Officially an MS4SF-affiliate, we have now recruited a listserv of over fifty medical, nursing, and other health students from across the University.