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Bruce Bekkar, MD    

Women’s Health Physician, Climate Activist, Speaker & Author

Bruce Bekkar is a women’s health physician and international keynote speaker engaged with the climate crisis since 2007. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Climate Change and Health and as a Fellow and member of the Leadership Circle Executive Committee at ecoAmerica in Washington, DC. At home in Southern California, he is Chair Emeritus of the Public Health Advisory Council and a public health consultant for the County of San Diego Regional Decarbonization Framework. Bruce has given presentations on climate and health to diverse audiences including the American Meteorological Society, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Genentech, England’s Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the California State Senate and members of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is the lead author of the first large-scale review of birth impacts and climate change, published in JAMA in June 2020, and he co-hosts “Green Docs,” a new podcast at the intersection of women’s health, pregnancy outcomes and our environment.

Speech Topics


Living Well in the Age of "Unprecedented"

Perils and possibilities of our Climate Crisis

The Climate Crisis and Women's Health

The Climate Crisis and Racial Justice

The Climate Crisis and risks to pregnancy in the U.S. and around the world

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