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Integrating environmental health, climate science, and policy to promote sustainable, healthy and resilient communities and health systems

Our Services

We offer expert insight into how clinical practice can evolve to support your sustainability goals—grounded in the perspective of a practicing physician. We support system-wide assessments of climate vulnerability, including risks to infrastructure, care delivery, and supply chains, and help you develop actionable plans to enhance climate resilience across your operations.

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For Health Systems

We help you navigate the evolving policy and regulatory landscape, build strategic partnerships across the health sector, and develop forward-looking sustainability strategies. We provide expert insight into emerging trends and innovations in environmental and sustainable healthcare, and offer tailored guidance to integrate environmental health into your core business strategy.

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For Sustainable Healthcare Companies

We can support the development of climate and health curricula and advise on strategic planning to strengthen your research programs at this critical intersection. We help align academic initiatives with emerging priorities in policy, practice, and community impact.

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For Academic Institutions

We provide strategic advice to help you maximize the impact of your investments at the intersection of climate and health. Whether you’re developing short-term initiatives or long-term funding strategies, we offer insight to ensure your resources drive meaningful, measurable change across communities and the health sector.

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For Philanthropies

We can help benchmark your climate and health policies and programs, assess the evolving regulatory landscape, and identify opportunities for alignment and improvement. We support collaboration with peer agencies nationwide and facilitate the development of comprehensive, community-informed climate action plans that integrate public health and health sector priorities.

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For State and Local Government Agencies

Dr. John Balbus is a sought-after public speaker with extensive experience providing invited lectures and keynotes.  In settings ranging from board meetings and grand rounds to large conferences, he can address such critical topics as how our health is being affected by climate change and how the health sector is addressing climate change-related threats.  

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Public Speaking

About

Climate Care Consulting, LLC, led by John Balbus, MD, MPH, a physician scientist and former federal official, focuses on the intersection of climate change and health. Our expertise lies in healthcare and health sector sustainability, community well-being, and cutting-edge science and research. We offer tailored consulting services to healthcare institutions, companies, government agencies, universities, and philanthropies.

 

Dr. Balbus established and directed the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity in the US Department of Health and Human Services from 2021-2025, after twelve years as Senior Advisor for Public Health to the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Trained in Internal and Occupational-Environmental Medicine, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.

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