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Austin Climate Change & Health

Sectors: Climate Change, Public Health

Challenge:

Help the City of Austin assess the public health co-benefits and co-harms associated with climate change policies.

Solution:
  • Perform a regional scan to identify the most significant climate-related environmental public health hazards in Central Texas.
  • Build capacity and interdepartmental cooperation around the links between climate change and health.
  • Create an environmental public health indicators tool linking environmental, health, vulnerability, and policy data on specific climate-related hazards to inform policy decisions and build public awareness.
  • Identify the vulnerable populations and public policies most relevant for public health input.
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Public Health Engagement in Sustainability & Climate Change

Sectors: Climate ChangePublic Health, Green Building

Challenge:

Develop an action plan for public health engagement with environmental sustainability and climate change initiatives in Northeast Ohio.

Solution:
  • Perform a regional scan to identify the most significant climate-related environmental public health hazards in Northeast Ohio.
  • Build capacity and interagency cooperation around the links between environmental sustainability, climate change, and health.
  • Build consensus among stakeholders around the primary role of public health in regional environmental sustainability and climate change initiatives.
  • Develop a prioritized action plan for expanding the public health role in these areas.
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Environmental Public Health Social Media Network

Sectors: Climate ChangePublic HealthGreen Building

Challenge:

Build an online community of environmental public health leaders—graduates from the CDC's EPHLI fellowship program—to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration on emerging topics.

Solution:
  • Build, populate, and launch an interactive website for EPHLI alumni, complete with an alumni directory and topic-based discussion groups.
  • Train EPHLI alumni on how to post information and respond to discussion threads on the website.
  • Facilitate online discussions on how local and state public health departments can contribute to environmental sustainability and climate change initiatives.
  • Launch the alumni network's first research project.
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Green Building & Operations in Healthcare

Sectors: Public HealthGreen Building

Challenge:

Challenge: Bring a health-based approach to developing guidance and best practices for healthcare facilities on how to enhance the environmental sustainability of their construction and operations practices.

Solution:
  • Highlight the co-benefits to health of green building and operations practices.
  • Design, develop, and deliver professional trainings to build technical capacity in the healthcare sector.
  • Conduct research and literature reviews to build an evidence-base for measuring the benefits of prioritizing the health co-benefits of green building and operations practices in the healthcare sector.
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