Climate Change

View these recorded webinars:

• Climate Changes Health Equity
• Climate Changes Health: Adaptation in Action
• Climate Changes Health: Clean Energy Changes Climate
• Climate Justice Changes Health: Local, Tribal, Global and Generational
• Climate Changes Health: Tools to Communicate the Problem
• Making the Connection: Climate Changes Allergies and Asthma
• Making the Connection: Climate Changes Children's Health
• Making the Connection: Changing Climate through Healthy Community Design and Transportation
• Making the Connection: Climate Changes Mental Health

Also of interest:

Climate change sessions at the 2018 APHA Annual Meeting and Expo in San Diego (PDF)
Year of Climate Change and Health Calendar of Events (PDF)
Climate change sessions at the 2017 APHA Annual Meeting and Expo in Atlanta (PDF)
Climate Change sessions at the 2016 APHA Annual Meeting in Denver (PDF)
Climate Change sessions at the 2015 APHA Annual Meeting in Chicago (PDF)

Missed some of these sessions? You can purchase presentation recordings here!

APHA applauds the Clean Power Plan, a bold strategy against climate change introduced by the White House and EPA that is projected to reduce carbon pollution from power plants by 32 percent by 2030 and protect the health of our nation for generations to come.

• Check out our news release commending the White House and EPA for announcing the final Clean Power Plan.
• Learn more about EPA's Clean Power Plan
• "Preventing the health impacts of climate change" (commentary by APHA Executive Director Georges Benjamin, MD)
• EPA fact sheet on the Clean Power Plan, climate change and public health
  
  

Health and Climate Resource Guide (PDF)

Public Health Newswire: Global climate action: A public health imperative

Climate Change, Health, and Equity: A Guide for Local Health Departments (PDF)

APHA among groups disappointed in proposal to revoke Clean Power Plan (APHA news release)

Learn about New York State's efforts, highlighted in this story from the field: Successfully Preparing for Climate Change in New York State

From The Nation's Health: Climate change to take center stage at APHA 2017 in Atlanta and California strengthens its role as leader on climate change

Health Approaches to Climate Change: How do health care providers and public health professionals approach climate change differently? (PDF)

The Nation's Health cover story: Public health taking action as climate change heats up

Climate Change Fact Sheets

Infographic: How Climate Change Affects Your Health

The Nation's Health  cover story: Vulnerable populations at risk from the effects of climate change: Public health working to find solutions

Adaptation in Action: Grantee Success Stories from CDC's Climate and Health Program (PDF)

Climate Change: Endangering Human Health and Wellbeing (PDF)

Climate Change: Mastering the Public Health Role, A Practical Guidebook (PDF)

Get the Facts: Transportation, Climate Change and Public Health (PDF)

Webinar series on climate and health

The Nation's Health  cover story: Global climate change treaty to have public health impacts

Public Health Newswire: APHA, experts discuss climate and health at White House Summit 

Safer climate, healthier nation (blog post by APHA Executive Director Georges Benjamin and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy)

2019 Declaration on Climate Change and Health (PDF)

APHA policy statement: Public Health Opportunities to Address the Health Effects of Climate Change

APHA’s Get Ready Campaign's September 2015 Google Hangout featured an exceptional panel of experts who shared their perspectives about climate change. 

APHA and the CDC presented the webinar Climate Changes Health: Two CDC BRACE Grantees Take Steps Toward Adaptation. Listen to the recorded webinar.

Complete list of American Journal of Public Health articles from 1923 through 2017

Selected articles:

• Climate Change and Water Quality: Keeping a Finger on the Pulse (January 2017)
• Hospitals Should Help Communities Prepare for Climate Change (November 2016)
• Toward a National Climate Change Health Coalition (October 2016)
• Impacts of Urban Water Conservation Strategies on Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Health: Southern California as a Case Study (May 2016)
• The Two Ways of Assessing Heat-Related Mortality and Mobility (November 2015)
• Preparedness for Natural Disasters Among Older US Adults: A Nationwide Survey (October 2015)
• Resilience and Vulnerability to the Psychological Harm from Flooding: The Role of Social Cohesion (April 2015)
• Workers: the Climate Canaries (October 2014)
• Adapting to the Effects of Climate Change on Inuit Health (June 2014)

• The Link Between Fossil Fuels and Neurological Harm (PDF) Report by the Center for Climate Change Communications and Health Babies Bright Futures' collaboration on health and clean energy
• The Weather Channel
• CDC guidance for health departments following the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects framework

EPA FACT SHEETS ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE HEALTH OF SPECIFIC POPULATIONS (all are PDFs):

• Climate change and the health of older adults
• Climate change and the health of pregnant women
• Climate change and the health of people with existing medical conditions
• Climate change and the health of people with disabilities
• Climate change and the health of occupational groups
• Climate change and the health of children
• Climate change, health and environmental justice
• How will climate change affect my health at different stages of my life?

Also, check out the EPA fact sheets on the state-by-state impacts of climate change.

View the EPA Heat Health Webcasts

Read the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change report (PDF)

Watch the video from the White House Summit on Climate Change and Health

Read Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical on climate change