Jodi D. Sherman

Jodi D. Sherman, M.D., is associate professor of anesthesiology at the Yale School of Medicine, associate professor of epidemiology in environmental health sciences in the Yale School of Public Health, and founding director of the Yale Program on Health Care Environmental Sustainability in the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health. She also serves as medical director of Sustainability for Yale-New Haven Health System. Sherman is an internationally recognized researcher in the emerging field of sustainability in clinical care. Her research interest is in life cycle assessment of environmental emissions, human health impacts, and economic impacts of drugs, devices, clinical care pathways, and health systems. Her work seeks to establish sustainability metrics, paired with health outcomes and costs, to help guide clinical decision-making, professional behaviors, and health care organizational management toward more resilient and ecologically sustainable practices to improve the quality, safety, and value of clinical care while protecting public health. Sherman cochairs the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare. She is a member of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and was contributing analyst for the UK National Health Service Net Zero Initiative. She serves on the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative for Decarbonization of the U.S. Health Sector and chairs the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists Sustainability Committee. Sherman earned her M.D. at the State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine and did her residency at Stanford University Medical Center.