Group for Environmental Medicine and Sustainability

Group for Environmental Medicine and Sustainability (GEMS) aims to bring awareness to environmental issues as they pertain to public health and medical education, to take initiative and advocate for change at the local level, and form lasting relationships with the community and educational facilities to facilitate future endeavors related to pertinent environmental issues. We founded, organize and run the climate change and human health elective through CCGH, which has run for three semesters and will be running for the '23-'24 academic year. Our elective touches on health topics such as respiratory health, dermatology, epidemiology, health system quality improvement, radiation oncology, OB-GYN and how they are impacted by climate change. We hope to emphasize the important role climate change has, does, and will play in our patient's health and what we as future physicians can do to counsel and enact change on both a micro and macro level.

Contact Us

• [email protected]
• https://ssom.luc.edu/regrec/elective-catalog/course-catalog/centerforcommunityglobalhealth/ccgh250/

Faculty Advisor

Justin Hoch ([email protected])

2025-2026 Board

Education Coordinator - Anumitha Aravindan ([email protected])

Engagement Coordinator - Robbie Wunderlich ([email protected])

MSU Representative - Ava Jennings ([email protected])

M4 Liaison - Megan Bollinger ([email protected])