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Harleen Marwah is a Pediatric Resident Physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is the Founding Chair of Medical Students for a Sustainable Future – a community of medical students working to prevent and address the health harms of climate change. Marwah earned Health Care Without Harm’s 2020 Emerging Physician Leader Award, which recognizes medical students and professionals who have showcased a passion for sustainable healthcare practices and an overall commitment to climate action. Marwah brings experience in youth engagement and working at the intersection of healthcare and climate change to the Council.
“The President and I are committed to addressing environmental justice and environmental injustice in everything we do. Because we know we cannot achieve health justice, economic justice, racial justice or educational justice without environmental justice. And we are confident that the work you do as members of this Council will help our administration help Americans across our country. We need your insight, your expertise, your lived experience. We need your ideas and your recommendations. Basically, we need you, period,” said Vice president Kamala Harris at the inaugural meeting of the White House Environmental (WHEJAC) Justice Advisory Council on March 30, 2021.
The establishment of the WHEJAC marks the first time that a Presidential advisory body has been tasked with providing recommendations on environmental justice. WHEJAC is a Federal advisory committee that is charged with providing independent advice and recommendations on how to address current and historic environmental injustice to the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council (IAC) and the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).
Marwah brings experience in youth engagement and working at the intersection of healthcare and climate change to the Council.
