Center for Public Health and Climate Change, Public Health Institute
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The Public Health Institute’s Center for Public Health and Climate Change contributes to building healthy and climate-resilient communities that have the right tools to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The Center engages local leaders, scientists, policymakers, health care providers and civil society in mainstreaming the protection of health across a wide range of policies and sectors. It promotes strategies that effectively address the impacts of climate change on health and nutrition, while at the same time generating co-benefits from adaptation and mitigation in the health, agriculture, transport, housing and energy sectors. By helping communities take simple steps to be prepared today and lower their risks tomorrow, the Center plays a key role in assuring that people live longer, healthier lives.
- Promote health equity and climate justice
- Develop capacity building and leadership programs that address climate and health
- Promote co-benefits from climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies across multiple sectors
- Advocate for policy change at the local, state, national and international levels
- Develop evidence-based training packages
- Provide forums for diverse sectors to engage, connect and share information
Capacity building: The Center offers technical assistance, trainings and leadership programs to support individuals, organizations, government and civil society across a range of sectors—including health, environment, agriculture—to incorporate health in climate change adaptation plans and mitigation strategies. A key component of our global work is promoting gender equity and effectively engaging women in preventing and responding to climate change.
Policy and advocacy: The Center implements focused policy and advocacy strategies to ensure that climate change policies at the state, national and international level incorporate health considerations. Working to engage and inform key decision makers, including legislators, government officials and community based advocates, the Center provides leadership through policy convenings, solutions-oriented policy briefs, and online and in-person briefings.
Support evidence-based policies: The Center develops white papers, policy briefs, fact sheets and webinars to educate stakeholders on the impact of climate change on health and to promote the best strategies and policies to address them.
Promote partnerships: The Center promotes theefforts of diverse groups of people and organizations working at the intersection of climate change and public health, offering collaboration opportunities, publichealth credibility and opportunities to reach a broader audience. This approach leverages partnerships andresources in order to sustain a stronger impact on climate policy at local, national and international levels.
Communications: The Center’s virtual home, ClimateHealthConnect, is an interactive, resource-rich website where public health leaders, policymakers, academics, environmentalists and others working on the connections between climate change and public health can share their expertise with one another and the general public.
www.climatehealthconnect.org
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.