Yale Center on Climate Change and Health

We would like to thank our outgoing President Susan Anenberg for her amazing leadership and incredible dedication and contributions to our AGU GeoHealth section! And we are excited to have our incoming President Daniel Tong and President-Elect Kai Chen! Thank you all for the #GeoHealth section members and AGU GeoHealth journal authors! #GeoHealth gathering and section event at #AGU24

Multiple congratulations to Prof. Paul Anastas, whose paper, “Toward Property-Based Regulation of Chemicals” (https://lnkd.in/ewxq2RJ7), was selected as a recipient of the 2023 Environmental Science & Technology Best Paper Award. This week, Anastas is traveling to Australia to deliver Commencement addresses and to receive honorary doctorate degrees from Griffith University in Brisbane and Monash University in Melbourne. Cue Pomp & Circumstance!

The challenges we face, here in the US and globally, from a warming planet are not political but existential. As one of the worlds biggest polluters the US has a fundamental responsibility to act, and must: 1. Make health a core issues when considering the effects of climate change. No longer can it be siloed or sidelined. To help better explain and address the threat we face policy makers must recognise that the health burdens caused by climate change will undermine our economies, social stability, and global security. 2. Create accountability and transparency by integrating health metrics into climate and green policies. Accountability can be further increased by the US galvanising the public and private sectors into doing the same and incorporating health metrics into their climate programs to ensure accountability. 3. Direct efforts towards adaptation and resilience of health care. By focusing attention, innovation and financing here policy makers can mitigate the harm of existing climate change and strengthen the public health systems for the future. The US, global leaders, policy makers, the health community, scientists, clinicians, and academics all have a role to make this a reality and ensure we move to human-centred climate action. You can read our full comment piece in The Lancet - “Addressing the unmet need: US leadership on climate and health” -https://lnkd.in/eVipWDtd. It was a pleasure to write it with Andrea Baccarelli, Dean of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Megan Ranney, Dean of Yale School of Public Health for The Lancet special issue.

Great job again by Eli Schulman in helping us share some considerations for health services researchers in assessing the impacts of climate change on health outcomes. Thank you to Kai Chen for providing your environmental expertise! https://lnkd.in/g8PXJZxH Yale Center on Climate Change and Health

The Spotify Wrapped you didn’t know you needed is here... Look back on 2024 through a climate health lens! 🎧🍃 Yale School of Public Health

🏥 How can healthcare systems withstand the growing risks of climate change? As part of our #HealthyCity Practitioner Toolbox, the “Climate-Resilient Health Systems” fact sheet provides actionable strategies to help urban healthcare facilities prepare for extreme weather and supply chain disruptions worsened by climate change. Key Recommendations: 🔹 Plan for climate risks with hazard vulnerability assessments (HVAs) 🔹 Strengthen facilities with flood barriers, green roofs, and backup power 🔹 Bolster supply chain resilience through reusable equipment and diversified suppliers Learn more and explore the full fact sheet here: https://lnkd.in/eUfR4kTv This tool was developed based on research by Dr. Jodi Sherman, MD at Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health. In addition to her work with the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Dr. Sherman provides pioneering leadership as the Medical Director of Sustainability for Yale New Haven Health. #UrbanSustainability #PublicHealth #ClimateResilience #ClimateChange #Yale #YSE

Last week Nonprofit Accountability Group was invited to speak to the Clinic in Climate Justice and Public Health class with Kimberly Stoner at the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health. Thank you for inviting us to share our work around environmental justice and the Environmental Rights Amendment, Annie Harper and Jennifer Wang!

Join YCCCH on Monday, December 9th at 12 PM ET for a conversation with Dr. Lara Cushing, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences from UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, who will deliver the lecture "Inequality & the Environment: Moving from Science to Action that Advances Climate Justice and Health Equity." Dr. Cushing's research focuses on the racial justice implications of disparities in exposure to environmental health hazards in the U.S. All are invited to attend. Yale affiliates are welcome to join us in-person in LEPH 115, or you may stream the event online via Zoom. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eWjUSp63

Thanksgiving lunch with the amazing Climate, Health, and Environment Nexus (CHEN) Lab members Yale Center on Climate Change and Health Yale School of Public Health Lingzhi Chu Riyang Liu Kevin Chan