The Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) Innovation Fund recently released a climate adaptation guide with a focus on addressing health inequity related to climate risk. Titled “A Guide to Equitable, Community-Driven Climate Preparedness Planning,” this…
The full plenary schedule is now available for the 2017 Preparedness Summit, scheduled to take place on April 25-28, 2017 in Atlanta. This year’s plenaries will feature conversations with leaders and experts from diverse sectors…
APHA and ecoAmerica are co-sponsoring a four-part webinar series investigating the health impacts of climate change. The series explores the connection between climate change and key areas of our health: allergies and asthma; health risks…
The White House released the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s latest assessment, “The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment.” The report significantly advances what we know about the…
This post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit http://essentialelements.naccho.org/. Though the official start of spring is still a week away, the season’s hallmark rainstorms have…
This post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit http://essentialelements.naccho.org/. By Andrea Grenadier, Communications Specialist, NACCHO If you were writing a popular novel designed to terrify, you…
Webinar: Sept. 16, 2015, 1 – 2 p.m. EDT The American Public Health Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are proud to present the webinar Climate Changes Health: Two CDC BRACE Grantees…
On Monday, August 3, President Barack Obama and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Clean Power Plan, which establishes national standards to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. The plan would cut U.S. carbon pollution…
On June 23, NACCHO Executive Director LaMar Hasbrouck, MD, MPH, joined hundreds of attendees at the White House Summit on Climate Change and Health. Speakers at the event included Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Environmental Protection…
Public comments are now being solicited for the draft version of The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment. This draft assessment report was developed by U.S. Global Change Research Program’s…