Climate Change
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Unless action is taken to curb global climate change, within the next 10 years the earth will pass a “tipping point” beyond which devastating consequences will become unavoidable. It is critical that America’s public health systems understand and adapt to the health implications of climate change. 
NACCHO's Climate Change Workgroup is seeking materials for a new toolkit that will connect local health departments and others with publications, tools, and other resources related to climate change. Climate change is happening and impacting the health of our communities and we need to take action now. Are you incorporating "climate messaging" into your work? Are you surveying and collecting data around new and emerging diseases related to climate change or vulnerable populations who may be impacted by climate change? Are you engaging land use and transportation planners to design communities in a healthy way that encourages active living, and also helps reduce greenhouse gases? Do you have any other tools that would be useful to climate change work at the local level? To submit a tool, contact Jacques Colon at jcolon@naccho.org. The Environmental Public Health Tracking Network has released a new module that focuses on climate change. This module allows users to access data related to climate change such as heat vulnerability, heat-related mortality, and temperature distribution. Several specific measures are provided for each indicator. Users are able to track these indicators and measures based on both geography and time. To learn more and access this module, click on the link below. More » 
NACCHO invited local health departments (LHDs) to submit applications in response to a request for proposals to conduct a one-year demonstration project to provide support to LHDs towards increasing the level of coordination and communication between disparate programs involved in addressing the public health consequences of climate change. The selected sites are:
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