Jodi Sherman, M.D., is associate professor of anesthesiology of the Yale School of Medicine, associate professor of epidemiology in environmental health sciences, and founding director of the Yale Program on Health Care Environmental Sustainability in the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health. She also serves as the medical director of sustainability for the Yale-New Haven Health System. Sherman is an internationally recognized researcher in the emerging field of sustainability in clinical care. Her research interest is in life cycle assessment (LCA) of environmental emissions, human health impacts, and economic impacts of drugs, devices, clinical care pathways, and health systems. She routinely collaborates with environmental engineers, epidemiologists, toxicologists, health economists, health administrators, health professionals, and sustainability professionals. Sherman is a member of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and was contributing analyst for the U.K. National Health Service Net Zero Initiative. She serves on the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative for Decarbonization of the U.S. Health Sector and is codirector of the Lancet Planetary Health Commission on Sustainable Healthcare. Sherman earned her M.D. at the State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine and did her residency at Stanford University Medical Center.
Jodi Sherman
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine