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

Clean Air Champions' mission is to improve air quality and reduce climate change by working with high performance athletes to educate and inspire Canadians, primarily youth, to adopt more sustainable, healthier lifestyles.

This Fact Sheet provides a broad overview of the potential health effects of climate change. 

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Climate_Change_and_Health_Impacts.pdf

Changes in the earth’s climate will have profound impacts on water, and water has profound impacts on public health. Yet little discussion is taking place in regard to how the changing climate’s impacts on water will affect public health. This lack of discussion is of particular concern in the American West, where climate scientists broadly agree that climate change is profoundly altering every aspect of water.

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Water climate health paper.pdf