Understanding Connections Between Climate and Public Health

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  Cecile Oger

  Managing Director, People and Culture, BSR

  

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  Cecile Oger

  Managing Director, People and Culture, BSR

  

  Paris

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  After nine years of working with BSR members to advance sustainability strategies, Cecile now leads BSR’s global People and Culture team. In this role, Cecile leads all processes related to building and retaining an exceptional global team of sustainable business experts. She works with the People and Culture team on attracting and hiring the best and brightest talents and making BSR a place where people grow, develop, and thrive in our international mindset and culture as well as have an impact on the world.

  Cecile continues to stay close to BSR’s mission and impacts through limited and targeted projects and member engagement, mostly in the healthcare sector. 

  Prior to joining BSR, Cecile served as deputy director for SGS Sustainability Services. Her work involved developing service offerings for sustainable supply chains. Before that, she was executive director of SFSTP, one of the largest associations of industrial pharmacists in Europe. She started her career in the chemicals industry, working for Clariant in the UK and Canada.

  Cecile holds a MBA from Toronto Metropolitan University, a BSc in Chemistry and Business Administration from Kingston University London, and a Life Science degree from University of Angers. She speaks French and English.

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Unzipped Staff, Levi Strauss & Co.

Trish Koman, PhD, MPP, University of Michigan, School of Public Health and College of Engineering

Tom Murray, Vice President, EDF+Business, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Rachelle Wenger, System Vice President, Public Policy & Advocacy Engagement, CommonSpirit Health

Jessica Wolff, Director of Climate and Health, Health Care Without Harm

Climate change threatens the planet, our communities, and business. The global COVID-19 pandemic is also highlighting the connection between climate and public health.

As part of Earth Day, and in light of the current worldwide health crisis, BSR member company Levi Strauss & Co. interviewed experts at the intersection of climate and public health, including BSR Director Cécile Oger. To better understand connections between these two critical issues and the next steps to take, we invite you to read this article.