Sustainability Into Practice Climate Change Health Equity Expanding equity andopportunity in america’s cities. 3215 w. big beaver road troy, mi 48084 1 248 643 9630. contact us. kresge’s environment and health programs have partnered on an initiative to accelerate action on climate change and to equitably reduce health disparities. The climate change, health & equity initiative 2023 spring convening, “ centering racial justice and health equity: the power of communities to shift climate policy and practice,” held april 17 19, 2023 in san diego, california, brought together grantees and partners from across the initiative to reconnect with one another and to share more about the powerful work taking place across the.
News Thompson Earth Systems Institute Kresge foundation president and ceo rip rapson delivered the following comments at the opening of the climate change, health & equity (cche) initiative 2023 convening “centering racial justice and health equity: the power of communities to drive climate policy and practice,” on april 17, 2023. good evening, and welcome. we are enormously grateful that you … continue reading rapson: work. In 2018, the kresge foundation launched the climate change, health, and equity (cche) initiative as a 5 year, $22 million commitment to accelerate action on climate change and climate related inequities in health. since its inception, the cche network has worked in distinct, yet aligned strategies that focus on health institutions, practitioner and professional societies, and community based. Climate change has a broad range of health impacts and tackling climate change could be the greatest opportunity for improving global health this century. yet conversations on climate change and health are often incomplete, giving little attention to structural discrimination and the need for racial justice. racism kills, and climate change kills. together, racism and climate change interact. In december 2023, in conjunction with the united nations climate change conference, the department of health and human services released the hhs climate change and health equity strategy supplement. this document describes both the specific challenges the public health, health care and human services sectors face with respect to climate change.
Pennsylvania Department Of Health Office Of Health Equity Announces Climate change has a broad range of health impacts and tackling climate change could be the greatest opportunity for improving global health this century. yet conversations on climate change and health are often incomplete, giving little attention to structural discrimination and the need for racial justice. racism kills, and climate change kills. together, racism and climate change interact. In december 2023, in conjunction with the united nations climate change conference, the department of health and human services released the hhs climate change and health equity strategy supplement. this document describes both the specific challenges the public health, health care and human services sectors face with respect to climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change are driven in part by systemic inequalities, including large disparities in wealth and political power, as well as racial and ethnic segregation. When the kresge foundation’s climate change, health and equity (cche) initiative launched in 2018, community power mobilization was integral because too often the people closest to viable climate resilience solutions were excluded from decisionmaking. since then, the leadership of cche’s community based, health practitioner, and health institution partners has underscored the significance.
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