The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
NACCHO’s environmental health team hosted nearly 20 webinars throughout 2019 to share the latest resources and best practices...
Dec 21, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Brigham and Women’s Hospital held a Department of Medicine Grand Rounds focused on the urgency of climate change and health. The...
CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and Climate and Health Program have partnered with the National Environmental...
Nov 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change is a comprehensive yearly analysis tracking the impact of climate change on human...
Physicians for Social Responsibility released a fact sheet on how climate worsens extreme weather. As ocean and air temperatures rise,...
Oct 30, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The theme for this year’s World Environmental Health Day, celebrated on Sept. 26, calls for unified action among the global...
Sep 26, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
On Sept. 21, 2019, the West Virginia University College of Law Center for Energy and Sustainable Development hosted a Climate Change...
Sep 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
This new guide from the World Health Organization (WHO) presents an overview of actions that can be taken by various actors – and the...
Physicians for Social Responsibility released a white paper on climate change health effects: Heat, Fire, Water: How Climate Change...
Aug 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
NACCHO’s environmental health team hosted nearly 20 webinars throughout 2019 to share the latest resources and best practices with local health departments across the country. Explore all of the webinar recordings below, and please share them with colleagues who may be interested. Adapting to Climate Change in Local Health Departments In January 2019, NACCHO awarded […]
Brigham and Women’s Hospital held a Department of Medicine Grand Rounds focused on the urgency of climate change and health. The purpose of the presentation was to ensure health professionals understand the associated health consequences of climate change and the need for urgent action. The speakers included Howard Frumkin, emeritus professor at University of Washington, […]
CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and Climate and Health Program have partnered with the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) to announce two $25,000 grants to support state, territorial, local or tribal (STLT) government health agencies that are already using a Health in All Policies (HiAP) framework to influence the Social Determinants of Health […]
The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change is a comprehensive yearly analysis tracking the impact of climate change on human health across 41 indicators. The report also projects the health benefits that would come from meeting the Paris Agreement targets, and the health harms of business as usual. The project is a collaboration of […]
Physicians for Social Responsibility released a fact sheet on how climate worsens extreme weather. As ocean and air temperatures rise, the delicate balance of climate, weather events and life is disrupted. Human health suffers as a result.
The theme for this year’s World Environmental Health Day, celebrated on Sept. 26, calls for unified action among the global environmental health community to tackle climate change.
On Sept. 21, 2019, the West Virginia University College of Law Center for Energy and Sustainable Development hosted a Climate Change and Public Health Conference. At this free public educational program, attendees heard and discussed presentations from experts in the field of climate change and public health.
This new guide from the World Health Organization (WHO) presents an overview of actions that can be taken by various actors – and the support that is being offered by WHO – to create healthier environments, including in priority settings such as workplaces, cities, dwellings, health care facilities, and emergency settings.
Physicians for Social Responsibility released a white paper on climate change health effects: Heat, Fire, Water: How Climate Change Has Created a Public Health Emergency. Dr. Lockwood has drawn on the content of the three major climate reports published in fall 2018 – the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the IPCC special report […]
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