Overall Rating Bronze
Overall Score 42.24
Liaison Tyler Leary
Submission Date April 5, 2024

STARS v2.2

MGH Institute of Health Professions
EN-14: Participation in Public Policy

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.33 / 2.00 Tyler Leary
Sustainability Coordinator
Office of Campus Services
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Local advocacy

Does the institution advocate for public policies that support campus sustainability or that otherwise advance sustainability at the municipal/local level?:
Yes

A brief description of how the institution engages in public policy advocacy for sustainability at the municipal/local level:

In the summer of 2023, members of the IHP's Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health Steering Committee participated in a Mothers Out Front (East Boston) Advocacy call where they engaged in letter writing campaign related to the idling of cars at Logan Airport. Mothers Out Front is a non-profit organization that aims to protext children from the impact of the climate crisis that impacts their health. The East Boston chapter is fighting for the right to breathe clean air and live and work in a community that is safe and healthy- one initiative has been to push forward an act improving air quality in airport environmental justice communities. The Climate Center also invited a resident of East Boston and Mothers Out Front member to the IHP in the summer of 2023 for a lunch and learn related to air quality issues in East Boston. The Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health is endorsed by the IHP's School of Nursing dean and the IHP's president.


https://www.mothersoutfront.org/campaigns/ma-clean-heat-clean-air/


Regional advocacy

Does the institution advocate for public policies that support campus sustainability or that otherwise advance sustainability at the state/provincial/regional level?:
Yes

A brief description of how the institution engages in public policy advocacy for sustainability at the state/provincial/regional level:

Suellen Breakey (Associate Director of MGH IHP's Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health) represented the Center for an Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Hill Day and met with staffers from Senator Markey’s office to discuss the impacts of climate change on health and to ask for his support funding for the environmental protections including the Clean Air Act, the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, the EPA, and the CDC’s environmental health capacity line and also to oppose 3 bills that would weaken the Clean Air Act: Air Quality Standards Implementation Act, the National Ambient Air Quality standards Implementation Act of 2023, and the Modernizing Clean Air Permitting Act of 2024. The IHP's Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health is endorsed by the IHP's School of Nursing dean and the IHP's president.


National advocacy

Does the institution advocate for public policies that support campus sustainability or that otherwise advance sustainability at the national level?:
No

A brief description of how the institution engages in public policy advocacy for sustainability at the national level:

Patrice Nicholas, the Director of the IHP's Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health, served as an Inaugural Climate Change and Health Scholar at the National Institutes of Health in 2023. The IHP's Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health is endorsed by the IHP's School of Nursing dean and the IHP's president.


International advocacy

Does the institution advocate for public policies that support campus sustainability or that otherwise advance sustainability at the international level?:
No

A brief description of how the institution engages in public policy advocacy for sustainability at the international level:
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Optional Fields 

A brief description of other political positions the institution has taken during the previous three years (if applicable):
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None
A brief description of political donations the institution made during the previous three years (if applicable):
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Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability advocacy efforts is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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