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CDC’s Climate and Health Program is celebrating 10 years of supporting state, tribal, local, and territorial public health agencies as...
Oct 30, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Physicians for Social Responsibility released a fact sheet on how climate worsens extreme weather. As ocean and air temperatures rise,...
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
A new video from the Natural Resources Defense Council shares the stories of a heat educator and a pediatrician in North Carolina who...
The consequences of climate change directly affect human health, the practice of medicine, and the stability of health care systems....
In January 2019, NACCHO awarded the Boston Public Health Commission and Marquette County Health Department (MI) each with $15,000...
Aug 08, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
CDC’s Climate and Health Program is celebrating 10 years of supporting state, tribal, local, and territorial public health agencies as they prepare for the continuing health impacts of a changing climate. In 2019 the program provided communities with new resources, tools, and peer-reviewed publications addressing the impacts of climate hazards.
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 […]
A new video from the Natural Resources Defense Council shares the stories of a heat educator and a pediatrician in North Carolina who have been dealing with the health impacts of increasingly extreme heat. It also briefly zooms out to a broader national context, including the threat of heat to workers. Watch the video.
The consequences of climate change directly affect human health, the practice of medicine, and the stability of health care systems. This Interactive Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine elucidates these effects and some approaches to mitigating them. In this new feature, clinicians will find the climate-related information most relevant to their medical specialty, as well...
In January 2019, NACCHO awarded the Boston Public Health Commission and Marquette County Health Department (MI) each with $15,000 grants to use in climate and health projects over six month. NACCHO hosted a webinar on July 31, 2019 to provide an overview of the two grant projects, which focused on extreme temperatures for Boston and […]
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