Sep 24, 2026 · 17 min · 8 segments
As climate risks reshape health, AI can help clinicians turn weather, wearable, and medical data into proactive and tailored care.
David RabinovitzHost
Bill EggersHost
Imagine it's 7 o'clock in the morning and a patient with asthma is getting ready for work.
Her wearable is about to nudge her to exercise today, but her weather app says it might be a bad air quality day.
Her doctor's office knows that she's had two recent asthma exacerbations, and her health plan knows that she's pretty stressed about cost of care and her own affordability issues.
At the same time, her daughter's school is debating whether or not to cancel outdoor activities.
The emergency department is also preparing quietly in the background for a surge in heat-related health issues.
That's the premise we're going to explore on this episode of the podcast, AI being focused on one of the most defining health challenges of our time, the intersection of climate and health.
Chaitan's a landscape architect, a pediatrician, and a leader in responsible use of AI, and one of a team alongside Seema Wadhwa really working to bring clinicians, researchers, innovators, and technologists, patients, and others together into the same room to talk about and work on the nexus of climate and health.
Their work's really focused on catalyzing innovation at this important intersection.
And the work also reveals a tension that we're going to come back to throughout the discussion.
AI can be a powerful tool in this topic, but trust, clinical oversight, community centricity, and the environmental stewardship have to be part of the core conversation.
Imagine it's 7 o'clock in the morning and a patient with asthma is getting ready for work.
Her wearable is about to nudge her to exercise today, but her weather app says it might be a bad air quality day.
Her doctor's office knows that she's had two recent asthma exacerbations, and her health plan knows that she's pretty stressed about cost of care and her own affordability issues.
At the same time, her daughter's school is debating whether or not to cancel outdoor activities.
The emergency department is also preparing quietly in the background for a surge in heat-related health issues.
That's the premise we're going to explore on this episode of the podcast, AI being focused on one of the most defining health challenges of our time, the intersection of climate and health.
Chaitan's a landscape architect, a pediatrician, and a leader in responsible use of AI, and one of a team alongside Seema Wadhwa really working to bring clinicians, researchers, innovators, and technologists, patients, and others together into the same room to talk about and work on the nexus of climate and health.
Their work's really focused on catalyzing innovation at this important intersection.
And the work also reveals a tension that we're going to come back to throughout the discussion.
AI can be a powerful tool in this topic, but trust, clinical oversight, community centricity, and the environmental stewardship have to be part of the core conversation.
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