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Twenty five years ago, a Union Carbide
pesticide factory in Bhopal experienced a massive gas leak,
sending a cloud of toxic chemicals over a sleeping city. The gas
cloud killed thousands of people in one night and exposed
500,000 people to industrial poisons. Bhopal is where the world
learned what chemical terror and its aftermath looks like.
Twenty five years later, more than 120,000 suffer from health
impacts related to their chemical exposure, including thousands
of children born to survivors of that terrible disaster. The
abandoned factory site continues to leak chemical wastes into
neighborhood wells poisoning a second generation of Bhopal
residents.
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Presented annually, the CleanMed
Environmental Health Hero Award recognizes an individual whose
professional accomplishments have significantly contributed to
advances in environmental health science or policy. The award
is given to someone whose achievements have both deepened our
understanding of the critical links between health and the
environment; and have catalyzed tangible policy or research
reforms that protect human health and the environment.
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Don’t miss this opportunity to get the
credit you deserve for your environmental programs! Award
recipients represent hospitals and other providers of care as
well as healthcare-related businesses and organizations. The
awards program is designed to reward and encourage organizations
from those that have just begun their environmental programs, to
those whose programs are well established and are leading the
healthcare sector with innovative projects.
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Health Care Without Harm’s Nurses Workgroup
sponsors The Luminary Project: Nurses Lighting the Way to
Environmental Health, an effort to capture the illuminating
stories of nurses' activities to improve human health by
improving the health of the environment. In 2006, the Charlotte
Brody Award was created by HCWH in honor of a lifelong advocate
for social change, a registered nurse and activist who has spent
her life making the world a safer place for people around the
world. The award recognizes a nurse’s endeavors toward
“brilliantly lighting the way to a healthier environment and
inspiring other nurses to do the same.” .
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With the death six years ago of Stephanie C.
Davis, healthcare waste reduction and pollution prevention in
healthcare lost a great and tireless champion. With the
invaluable support of Health Care Without Harm, Stephanie’s
colleagues, friends and family have established this Award and
Scholarship for CleanMed - to recognize and support those in
health care organizations who struggle to “green” healthcare.
CleanMed is honored to present our four award / scholarship
recipients, selected through a competitive process, for their
past accomplishments and their ambitious plans to continue
healthcare waste reduction and pollution prevention in the
healthcare sector.
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In an effort to spread the word to
nursing students of the important role nurses can and do play in
advocating for environmental health goals, the Nurses Work Group
of Health Care Without Harm, along with The Luminary Project,
has created the Hollie Shaner-McRae Nursing Student Essay
Contest. In an essay of 600 to 1500 words the contestants were
asked to discuss the nurse’s role as an environmental health
activist.
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