Latest Updates
- Learn about our new heat initiatives and resources this summer.
- Take our new on-demand BRACE training to further your climate and health work. (In partnership with ecoAmerica)
- Check out this new report Fueling Sickness: The Hidden Health Costs of Fossil Fuel Pollution, revealing the direct health impacts of fossil fuel use.
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Why Is Climate Change a Public Health Issue?
As rising global temperatures disrupt the interconnected systems in our environment, we are vulnerable to catastrophic conditions. Extreme heat, severe storms, air pollution, wildfires and the spread of mosquito- and tick-borne diseases threaten the physical and mental health of all communities.
APHA focuses on protecting populations who are disproportionately affected, including people living with disabilities and chronic illnesses, communities of color, people experiencing homelessness and outdoor workers. Learn more:
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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ decision to change the universal Hepatitis B vaccine guidance increases the risk of infection for babies. This recommendation will leave children vulnerable to unnecessary exposure and preventable illness.
APHA Joins GW and Dozens of Public Health and Policy Experts Urging the CDC to Maintain Universal Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccination
A public comment filed by 73 public health deans and scholars, along with the American Public Health Association - representing more than 23,000 individual members and numerous organizational members, concludes that the evidence overwhelmingly supports maintaining the current schedule for immunizing children against the hepatitis B virus (HBV).
New APHA Press book emphasizes advancing equity and justice in public health practice
Strategic Skills for Public Health Practice: Advancing Equity and Justice explains how powerful systems determine how long and how well we all live and suggests strategies practitioners can implement to improve community health.
Statement on CDC autism website changes
Our organizations, representing autistic individuals, their families, medical professionals and public health workers, are alarmed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is promoting the outdated, disproven idea that vaccines cause autism.
