MSNJ Climate Health Task Force

Environment, Climate, and Health Resources:

Climate and health:

• Lancet Countdown Reports: Tracking the intersection between climate and health
• Climate Change and Health Lit Portal
• U.S. Global Change Research Program
• Lectures on climate health basics
• EAT-Lancet Commission on food, planet, and health

Facts about the science of the climate:

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) maps about climate change
• NASA has lots of climate info on their website

Climate and communications:

• George Mason University
• A Physician’s Guide to Climate Change, Health and Equity
• Yale University, “The six Americas”
• Infographics: Climate and social vulnerability
• Is a neighborhood you work with vulnerable? Check out the CDC Social Vulnerability Index
• EJ screen
• https://www.purpleair.com   
• https://www.airnow.gov
• ALA State of the Air
• Gender equity
• Tree Equity Score

Climate coverage:

• Environmental Health News
• The Atlantic Magazine
• Washington Post
• NY Times
• Grist
• www.commondreams.com
• Journal of Climate Change and Health
• New England Journal of Medicine
• Lancet
• Lancet Planetary Health

Articles:

• The medical response to climate change (cell.com) Education, Research, Preparedness, Decarbonizing healthcare, Voicing/Advocacy
• Air Pollution and Noncommunicable Diseases (chestnet.org) – Air pollution is 5^th leading cause of death in the world.
• AQLI_2021-Report.EnglishGlobal.pdf (uchicago.edu) Researchers at the University of Chicago estimated last year that air pollution cuts 2.2 years off the average human life. The effects are worse where pollution is thickest. Assessing Adverse Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Low Levels of Ambient Air Pollution: Implementation of Causal Inference Methods | Health Effects Institute An analysis of the health records of 68.5 million Medicare recipients found that regular exposure to low levels of air pollution significantly increased the chances of an early death.
• Air Pollution and Noncommunicable Diseases - PMC (nih.gov) bone disease, DM, cognitive problems
• In a 1.5C warmer world, for example, roughly 1 in 7 people will live in places too hot for human survival. In a 2C warmer world, that proportion grows to more than 1 in 3. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2018). Global Warming of 1.5C. https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
• https://njhazadapt.rutgers.edu
• Shuman EK. Global climate change and infectious disease. NEJM. 2010; 362:1061-3. Global Climate Change and Infectious Diseases | NEJM)
• Pollution and the Heart | NEJM
• CHRE Guide – Find Climate Resources For Health Education - CHRE (climatehealthed.org)
• MS4SF - Curriculum Guide_2022 - Danny Walden.pdf - Google Drive
• The Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE) | HHS.gov