Pathways to Impact through Environmental Sustainability

The Climate Change & Planetary Health Concentration invites you to their next Brown Bag Lunch Seminar: Pathways to Impact through Environmental Sustainability with Tom Polton.

Tom joined Pfizer immediately after finishing his master’s degree from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in 1983. He began his tenure at Pfizer by leading their global occupational hygiene and process safety programs. From 2009 on, he oversaw the environmental sustainability and product stewardship programs. Since leaving Pfizer, Tom has been involved with the Climate Reality Project, former Vice President Al Gore’s grassroots climate organization serving on the NY State Leadership Team. He also has been active with the 3000+ member Harvard Alumni for Climate and Environment (HACE) co-chairing a Climate and Health series for the alumni members. At the 2024 HSPH Alumni weekend he moderated a panel on Extreme Heat with Professors Gaurab Basu and Barrak Alahmad. Tom is a member of the Harvard Salata Institute’s Alumni Working Group, and an adjunct professor teaching “Enterprise Sustainability” to Clarkson University graduate students pursuing a MS in Engineering Management and has been lecturing at Harvard Chan for the past 20 years. And lastly, he advises organizations on sustainability strategy at NV Sustainability LLC, a consulting firm he founded with the motto “become green with NV.”