"We're committed to making sure the nation knows about the effects of climate change on health. If anyone doesn't think this is a severe problem, they are fooling themselves."
-- APHA Executive Director Georges Benjamin, in The Washington Post
From exposure to extreme weather and heat waves to worsening air pollution and the spread of insect-borne disease — climate change is a health emergency. That’s why APHA has signed on to the Climate, Health, and Equity Policy Action Agenda with more than 150 health organizations to protect the health and safety of all people in the U.S.
APHA Action Alert: Tell Congress to protect the public's health from climate change
Meet the APHA Center for Climate, Health and Equity's inaugural advisory board.
Read about the connections between COVID-19 and climate change on APHA's Public Health Newswire.
New climate-relevant COVID-19 resources
More resources
Fact sheets on energy justice (Special thanks to Partnership for Southern Equity for their thoughtful review):
Parent & Educator Toolkit from APHA's Children's Environmental Health Committee
Fact sheets on the health impacts of climate change (all are PDFs):
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Our factsheet template and guides will help you create maps and find data to populate your location-specific factsheet:
Factsheet template (DOC) | Generating Environmental Health Maps (PDF) | Generating Climate Change Maps (PDF)
More about climate change
Check out the winners of APHA's Student Champions for Climate Justice awards. Five U.S. college and university student groups were awarded support to raise awareness about the effects of climate change on health equity.
Listen to the American Shoreline Podcast's episode featuring APHA's Surili Sutaria Patel on about climate justice and public health.
APHA is proud to support our partners' creation of powerful new resources and tools like ecoAmerica's Moving Forward Toolkit: A Guide for Health Professionals to Build Momentum on Climate Action and Healthcare Without Harm's Energy and Health Impact Calculator.
APHA’s Center for Climate, Health and Equity leads public health efforts to inspire action on climate and health, advance policy and galvanize the field to address climate change. To stay current on the Center's activities and opportunities, sign up for our newsletter.
Follow the conversation online using the hashtag #ClimateChangesHealth
Questions? Please contact our climate change team or reach out on Twitter to @EH_4_All.