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Sheetal Rao MD

@khedrao.bsky.social

Primary Care physician | Assistant Prof A Healthy 🌎= Preventative care Passionate about Healthcare, Climate Justice & the Environmental Determinants of Health UI Chicago | Nordson Green Earth 🌳| ILClinicians4ClimateAction #medsky #planetaryhealth

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Sheetal Rao MD@khedrao.bsky.social · last wk.

“We are managing an emergency with tools built for a slow disease. Nobody..seems willing to say that plainly, because doing so would mean admitting that the entire architecture…is the wrong shape for the problem” www.independent.co.uk/voices/next-...

The next pandemic won’t come from a lab. It’ll come from the weather.

The only way to manage the deadly – and immediate – results of flooding and heatwaves is to treat the climate emergency as we would an outbreak, not like a chronic illness, writes policy adviser Aliza...

independent.co.uk

Sheetal Rao MD@khedrao.bsky.social · 3w ago

This piece resulted from several conversations Dr. Johnson and I had with each other and with other moms about navigating recent #wildfiresmoke for our kids. When smoke becomes a regular occurrence, it is no longer an acute health threat, but a chronic one. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/31/o...

Doctors: Wildfire smoke will return. Illinois needs a better plan for its kids.

With no statewide standard in Illinois for children’s outdoor activity in poor air quality, program policies represent a patchwork.

chicagotribune.com

Hot & Toxic@hotandtoxic.bsky.social · last mo.

Home should be where we breathe easiest. But the air inside our homes can contain pollutants that affect our health, especially for children, older adults, & people living with chronic conditions. Dr. Sheetal Rao breaks down why indoor air pollution from our gas appliances deserves more attention.

Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Senate confirmed Steve Pearce, a former member of Congress from New Mexico, to lead the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. He has previous argued that “we do not even need” most federal lands: www.publicdomain.media/p/steve-pear... via @chrisdangelo.bsky.social

Steve Pearce's Confirmation Tested The Senate Public Lands Caucus. It failed.

Members of the purportedly bipartisan caucus voted on party lines to confirm Trump’s controversial pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management.

publicdomain.media

Dr Charlie Gardner@charliejgardner.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I wish reporters would stop saying stuff like 'Scientists say we need to rapidly decarbonise to avoid catastrophic global heating' And simply say 'we need to rapidly decarbonise to avoid catastrophic global heating' It's not an opinion, it's a fact

Bob Berwyn@bberwyn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Compassionate collaboration may be the only way to heal an overheated, fractured and zero-sum world that’s lurching from one crisis to the next to feed its fossil fuel addiction.

As the UN Global Climate Talks Lose Momentum, a Smaller Coalition Eyes a Fossil Fuel Exit - Inside Climate News

More than 50 countries will gather in Colombia to try to develop real-world timetables to phase out oil and gas amid global energy shocks and petrostate stalling.

insideclimatenews.org

Sheetal Rao MD@khedrao.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“Small farms often bear the brunt of warming, and require increased investments for adaptation—investments that often become prohibitive for farmers struggling with health care costs.” Fascinating intersection of healthcare policy, farming and #climatechange insideclimatenews.org/news/0603202...

On the Farm, the Hidden Climate Cost of the Broken U.S. Health Care System - Inside Climate News

American farmers are drowning in health insurance costs, while their German counterparts never worry about medical bills. The difference may help determine which country's small farms are better prepa...

insideclimatenews.org

APHA@apha.org · 6mo ago

BREAKING: New APHA lawsuit challenges Trump administration actions that would worsen air pollution: “EPA’s rollbacks are based on political poppycock, not science or law, and the courts should see it that way.” www.apha.org/news-and-med...

Man looks at factory pollution
Sheetal Rao MD@khedrao.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The Finnish study gets a mention in every talk I give on #biodiversity and health. amazing to see lessons learned from research incorporated into healthier preschools and kids! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health

In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing

theguardian.com