Dr. Bhargavi (Bhar) Chekuri (she/her) is an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Colorado, and also faculty at the CU Climate and Health Program where her focus is graduate and continuing medical education. To that end - she directs the Climate & Health Science Policy Fellowship and the Diploma in Climate Medicine. Her current areas of interest include the intersection of primary care, community medicine and climate change with a focus on systems medicine and health and gender equity. She has served as a technical contributor to the 5th National Climate Assessment, attended and presented at multiple United Nations Climate Change Conferences and is a fellow at the Payne Institute of Public Policy. She is also co-chair of the Planetary Health Collaborative at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Prior to her climate medicine work, she completed her residency training at New Hampshire Dartmouth and attended medical school in Australia.

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Dr. Sbiroli is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician in San Diego, California and holds a Diploma in Climate Medicine (DiCM) from the University of Colorado after completing the National Physician Fellowship in Climate and Health Science Policy in 2022. Her expertise includes health care sector decarbonization, the impacts of climate change on human health, and clinician education and engagement in these issues. Dr. Sbiroli currently practices medicine at several community health care systems in the San Diego area including the busiest emergency department serving North County San Diego, and underserved areas near the US-Mexico border providing emergency care to at-risk populations. As a National Physician Fellow, she worked with the US Environmental Protection Agency Climate Science and Impacts Branch in developing a national report on children’s health and climate change. After fellowship, Dr. Sbiroli stayed on as core content developer for curricula in healthcare sector decarbonization for University of Colorado Diploma in Climate Medicine certificate program. She has presented at Health Care Without Harm’s CleanMed annual conference in several capacities including work on emissions reductions from telemedicine during COVID-19, social vulnerability to climate-health impacts, and health care plastics reduction. She was a featured speaker at the Environmental Media Association Impact Summit, was featured on a podcast with At Home with Drew and Linda Scott, and was also a featured speaker for UN Women, California’s American College of Emergency Physicians annual conference, FemInEM, and the San Diego Heat and Health Summit. In addition to these talks, Dr. Sbiroli has delivered over 100 lectures on the topics of climate, health, and health care sustainability to many different audiences ranging from lay audiences and high schools, to physician cohorts and clinical departments throughout the US. In 2019 she was awarded as an inaugural Emerging Physician Leader by Health Care Without Harm’s Physician Network and still serves on the Physician Advisory Council for Health Care Without Harm. Dr. Sbiroli completed her emergency medicine residency in 2021 at UC San Diego including one year as Chief Resident.

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