‘People need convincing there’s something you can do about climate change’.

An interview with Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association (APHA), is presented. Benjamin talks about the theme of the 2015 APHA annual meeting of getting more people to consider their role in health, some determinants of health including exercise as well as access to and consumption of safe food, and the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration in reducing firearm-related injuries or deaths.