Medical Waste, A Call to Action for Health Care. Find out why incineration is harmful and about better alternatives for medical waste treatment. enlarge video
WHO-HCWH Climate Report
Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Addressing Climate Change in Health Care Settings (pdf)
Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Addressing Climate Change in Health Care Settings (pdf)
Gary Cohen, Uncommon Hero
HCWH's co-founder Gary Cohen is a recipient of the prestigious Skoll Award. This video, chronicling the evolution of HCWH's work, premiered at the 2009 Skoll World Forum. enlarge video
HCWH's co-founder Gary Cohen is a recipient of the prestigious Skoll Award. This video, chronicling the evolution of HCWH's work, premiered at the 2009 Skoll World Forum. enlarge video
Free Climate and Health Webinar
Climate Change and Human Health:
A Nurse's Call to Action
This webinar was presented by Kim Knowlton, Dr.P.H., Natural Resources Defense Council on November 16, 2011.
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Speaker
Dr. Kim Knowlton is a health scientist with Natural Resources Defense Council in New York. Her work focuses on issues related to the health impacts of global warming, including advocating for public health strategies to prepare for and prevent these impacts. Kim is exploring links between climate change and infectious diseases such as dengue fever, and partnering with city and state governments to make health preparedness a more central feature of climate adaptation plans. She has also researched heat- and ozone-related mortality and illnesses as well as possible connections between climate, pollen, allergies and asthma.
Key Resources
- Ambient Ozone Concentrations Cause Increased Hospitalizations for Asthma in Children (pdf)
- The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act from 1990 to 2020 (pdf)
- Climate Change and Human Health: A Nurse's Call to Action
- Driven to Extremes: Health Effects of Climate Change (pdf)
- The Economic Affliction of Asthma and Risks of Blocking Air Pollution Safeguards (pdf)
- EnviRN Knowledge Network: Climate Change and Health Provides an overview of climate change, explores health implications and provides an opportunity for advocacy on climate change issues
- Environmental Health Indicators of Climate Change for the United States (pdf)
- Interaction of the Onset of Spring and Elevated Atmospheric CO2 on Ragweed (pdf)
- Reducing Mercury Pollution (Air Toxics Rule) (pdf)
- Reducing Mercury Pollution (Mercury Mact Rule) (pdf)
- Reducing Ozone and Fine Particle Pollution (CSAPR Rule) (pdf)
- State of the Air 2011 - ALA Report (pdf)
The Impact of Climate Change on Health: Most people now know that climate change is a serious issue. Few, however, are aware of the extraordinary impacts that climate change will have specifically on health. The Climate Code Green Campaign addresses the impact of climate change on health. enlarge video
