Community Resilience
Climate Change
Emergency Response
Extreme Weather

Now Accepting Abstracts: 2024 Preparedness Summit

Abstracts due September 15.

Aug 02, 2023 | Beth Hess

Tools & Resources
Climate Change
Rural and Frontier Health

Increasing Rural Resilience to Climate Change: A Resource Roundup for Health Departments

This blog can give rural LHDs several approaches to increasing current capacity or establishing new baseline activities...

Mar 09, 2023

Climate Change

New CDC Climate and Health Notice of Funding Opportunity Due 6/18/21

CDC/ATSDR is excited to announce the new Climate Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).

Apr 22, 2021 | Guest Author

Climate Change
Maternal, Child, & Adolescent Health

Heat Rise Alert: Local Health Worker Interventions are Needed to Protect Pregnant People

Pregnant people have been largely invisible in efforts to better manage harm to human health from the increasing number...

Oct 08, 2020 | Guest Author

Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning
Climate Change
Opportunity

Response Requested: EPA Seeks Your Support to Develop a Community Resilience Tool Around Climate Change and Extreme Events

EPA is planning a set of invite-only “small group” virtual workshops with the goal of developing a community resilience...

Sep 30, 2020 | Anu Varma

Climate Change

Building Public Health Capacity for Climate Action

The theme for this year’s World Environmental Health Day, celebrated on Sept. 26, calls for unified action among the...

Sep 26, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

Community Resilience
Climate Change

The State of Climate Adaptation in Public Health: An Assessment of 16 U.S. States

EcoAdapt was funded by the Natural Resources Defense Council to assess the state of climate adaptation planning and...

Jul 31, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

Climate Change
Health Equity & Social Justice

Introducing APHA’s Center for Climate, Health, and Equity

By Surili Sutaria Patel, Deputy Director, Center for Public Health Policy, American Public Health Association Climate...

Jul 01, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

Climate Change
Extreme Weather

Extreme Temperature Planning for All in the City of Boston

By Erin Polich, MPH, Senior Program Manager, Office of Public Health Preparedness, Boston Public Health Commission...

Apr 05, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

Emergency Response
Healthy Living & Prevention
Water Quality

World Water Day: How to Prepare for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Emergencies

The theme for this year’s World Water Day, recognized annually on March 22, is “Leaving no one behind.” Billions of...

Mar 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

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