Creating a Climate for Health Pilot Projects

Frequently Asked Questions

Updated 6/13/2013

Note: If you have a question about the pilot projects, please e-mail your question to Anita Gardyne at anita@rampasthma.org. A team will review all questions and post answers on this website within 10 days of receiving the question. Thank you! 

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FAQs Creating a Climate for Health Pilot Projects 6.13.13.pdf

The Public Health Institute (PHI) is pleased to release a Request for Applications for Creating a Climate for Health Pilot Projects.

With funding from the Kresge Foundation, PHI will support pilot projects in three geographically diverse, urban communities in California to demonstrate approaches to incorporate climate change into current public health program practice and/or to enhance public health participation in on-going local climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience work. Each grantee will be awarded $20,000 for 12 months of work within the state of California. The purpose of the pilot projects is to develop models that can be held up, scaled up, and replicated that simultaneously address climate change and community health and health equity. Projects can be new or complement existing projects.

The deadline for applications is July 1, 2013.

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RFA Creating a Climate For Health Pilot Projects.pdf

Mass media have influenced who has a say about climate change and how in the public arena, but the road from information acquisition via mass media to various forms of engagement and action is far from straightforward. Mass media portrayals simply do not simply translate truths or truth-claims nor do they fill knowledge gaps for citizens and policy actors to make ‘the right choices’. Moreover, media representations clearly do not dictate particular behavioural responses. For example, research has shown that fear-inducing and catastrophic tones in climate change stories can inspire feelings of paralysis through powerlessness and disbelief rather than motivation and engagement. In addition, O’Neill et al have found that imagery connected with climate change influences saliency (that climate change is important) and efficacy (that one can do something about climate change) in complex ways amidst the US public (2012).

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Boykoff and Goodman - 2013 - Science (and Policy) Friction How mass media shap.pdf