The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Health departments have an opportunity to increase public awareness about climate change impacts and government response by framing...
Apr 09, 2020 | Andrea Grenadier
Cities around the world are taking meaningful action to advance health equity by designing solutions that benefit the health of people...
Mar 24, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Climate and Health Program released a technical report on heat response...
Feb 04, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
This story originally ran on NACCHO’s Essential Elements. Whether or not Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow when he emerges on...
Jan 30, 2020 | Taylarr Lopez
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...
The years between 2005-2018 witnessed a dramatic rise in “natural” gas (methane) production in the United States, driven by the use of...
Dec 09, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
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...
Health departments have an opportunity to increase public awareness about climate change impacts and government response by framing their work around climate change when communicating with the public. Check out this new infosheet with tips on how to frame your communications about climate change.
Cities around the world are taking meaningful action to advance health equity by designing solutions that benefit the health of people and our planet. Through a $3 million funding opportunity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) seeks to bring the most impactful ideas from across the globe to U.S. cities to address the intertwined issues of […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Climate and Health Program released a technical report on heat response plans. The document gives a summary of extreme heat, the health burden of heat exposure, the impacts of climate change, and components and effectiveness of heat response plans with a focus on relevant peer-reviewed literature and […]
This story originally ran on NACCHO’s Essential Elements. Whether or not Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow when he emerges on Groundhog Day, spring is on its way and summer won’t be far behind. Along with beach trips and backyard barbecues, summer also brings environmental health risks from mosquitoes and ticks, recreational water activities, extreme heat, […]
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, […]
The years between 2005-2018 witnessed a dramatic rise in “natural” gas (methane) production in the United States, driven by the use of horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, an extraction process that injects highly pressurized water and chemicals underground to fracture rock formations. Once fracked, the gas is typically transported and distributed domestically through a vast […]
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 […]
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