It is well established, if insufficiently acknowledged, that climate change is having and will continue to have significant harmful impacts on human health. A 2009 article in The Lancet described climate change as perhaps “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” The American Public Health Association (APHA) has called climate change an “urgent threat” to health, and has emphasized that “local public health professionals around the country increasingly will be dealing with the impacts of climate change on the ground, every day.”  These threats to health from climate change require robust, comprehensive action that engages all levels of government. That is why the Public Health Institute has signed on in support of U.S. Representative Lois Capps' Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act, which would give the Department of Health and Human Services the mandate to prepare the nation’s public health systems to address those impacts.

Creating a Climate for Health Pilot Projects

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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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Since 2009, when the last attempt to enact comprehensive federal climate change legislation succumbed to a high-profile political failure, expensive and deadly natural disasters have refocused national attention on our changing climate. In his inaugural acceptance speech and his State of the Union address, President Obama devoted considerable attention to the issue. The U.S. Government Accountability Office recently identified climate change as a “significant financial risk for the federal government.” House Democrats have established the Safe Climate Caucus. And on last Thursday, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the Climate Protection Act of 2013, a bill that would take a major step by imposing a fee on the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Sustained and serious federal policy-making to addressing climate change is good news for health; and those interested in health must help shape and push for climate policy.

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