Emmie Mediate

Emmie Mediate (she/her) is the U.S. Chief Program Officer at Health Care Without Harm. In this role, she oversees programmatic strategy and activities across climate mitigation, climate resilience, and health equity. Prior to joining Health Care Without Harm, Emmie coordinated COVID-19 response and recovery in the mid-Atlantic at the CDC Foundation and served as Chief of Staff at the American Flood Coalition. She has also worked as a research fellow on a USAID-funded project in Uganda and at the Baltimore City Health Department. Emmie graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts in Health Studies and Africana Studies. She also holds a Master of Science in Global Governance and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Emmie lives in Hampton, Virginia with her wife. 

Health Care Without Harm seeks to transform health care worldwide so that the sector reduces its environmental impact and becomes a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice. Over three decades, Health Care Without Harm has built the most extensive network at the intersection of human and planetary health. Health Care Without Harm’s affiliated network Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,700 hospitals and health systems in the United States. Our North Star is a zero-emissions, climate-resilient, and equitable health sector; we are transforming the health sector to better deliver on its core promise to “First, do no harm.”