Communicating Climate Change as a Public Health Issue

How do you talk about climate change and public health? This webinar series explores some of the climate-health communications tools in use today.

Join public health leaders from California and across the nation for the last two webinars in a dynamic series on communicating the powerful connection between climate change and human health. These webinars feature real-life examples and practical recommendations for increasing the impact of climate and health communications.

Part 3: Climate Change + Health Equity: Telling the Story With Data

Date: Aug 02 2017
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST

How do you talk about climate change and public health? This webinar series explores some of the climate-health communications tools in use today.

Join public health leaders from California and across the nation for the last two webinars in a dynamic series on communicating the powerful connection between climate change and human health. These webinars feature real-life examples and practical recommendations for increasing the impact of climate and health communications.

Part 3: Climate Change + Health Equity: Telling the Story With Data

Date: Aug 02 2017
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST

In this webinar you’ll have an opportunity to hear national and state leaders address health equity and data tools available to integrate equity into climate communications and adaptation planning.

Linda Helland, CDPH, Climate Change and Health Equity Program will be the moderator. It will feature Jacqui Patterson, NAACP, Environmental and Climate Justice Program; Dr. Gina Solomon, CalEPA, CalEnviroScreen and Climate Justice; and Nik Steinberg, Director of Analytics, Four Twenty Seven.

Part 4: Innovative Curricula for Public Health Priority Populations

Date: August 9
Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m. PST

How do climate change communications fit into existing public health programs? Register to listen to local leaders share effective, low-cost approaches to making
this connection.

This webinar will feature Nancy Villasenor, CDPH; Kathleen Karle and Morgan Feld, County of San Luis Obispo; Judy Robinson, Sacramento County; Darcy Pickens, Kings County; with closing comments by Dr. Penny Borenstein, County of San Luis Obispo.

These webinars are presented by the County of San Luis Obispo Public Health Department, with sponsorship from Building Resistance Against Climate Effects (BRACE): Community of Practice for Communications and Engagement and received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the California Department of Public Health– Office of Health Equity (CDPH-OHE).

Continuing education units pending for nurses, planners, and landscape architects.