About Us

Climate change is a public health emergency.

We bring the California health community’s voice to legislative advocacy to support policies that protect our climate and health and promote equity.

Rooted in our Policy Platform: U.S. Call to Action

Statewide Leadership Team

  • Shuinn Chang is a family nurse practitioner and an executive management consultant specializing in operationalizing managed care, population health, and digital healthcare solutions. She is a 2022 CHEEA Climate Health Organizing Fellow through the Cambridge Health Alliance. Shuinn is based in Los Angeles, CA.

  • Margie Chen is a retired Obstetrician-Gynecologist who practiced in San Francisco for 36 yrs. She is a Clinical Professor of ObGyn, emeritus, at UCSF. She joined Climate Health Now in September 2019. She is co-founder of Voting4Climate&Health, an off shoot of CHN, that activates the healthcare community to promote patient civic engagement to vote for climate and health. She is devoting her retirement to fighting climate change so that her grandchildren will be able to live and thrive in a healthy environment

  • Ashley McClure is a Seattle native practicing outpatient primary care in Oakland, California since 2016. Since her climate awakening, she’s been organizing the medical community as a California Medical Association and American Medical Association alternate delegate and as a co-founder of Climate Health Now.

  • Amanda Millstein is a primary care pediatrician in the Bay Area. She is a co-founder of Climate Health Now and co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Chapter One's Committee on Climate Change and Child Health. She lives in the East Bay with her husband, two children, and cat!

  • Brenda Nuyen is a comprehensive ophthalmologist at a private practice in Los Angeles, CA. Brenda is also on the Editorial Board and the Industry Advisory Board Subcommittee of EyeSustain - a global coalition of eye societies, organizations, and ophthalmologists collaborating to make ophthalmic care and surgery more sustainable. She recently was part of the Climate Advocacy Lab's inaugural Climate + Health Peer Learning Circle cohort.