Overview

The Climate and Community Health initiative’s workshops are opportunities for hospital and health system leaders to engage in intensive discussions focused on the differential impacts climate has on community health. Run from the perspective of hospital-based community health professionals, these on-site events taking place around the country help collect relevant information from hospitals and communities in diverse regions across the United States.

Video recap of the first Climate workshop

The workshops target hospital and health system leaders whose work relates to community health and community engagement, as well as the local public health or community-based organizations with which they collaborate. Workshop content is framed in the context of the work participants do, such as community health needs assessments and community health improvement plans.

During the workshops, participants take part in a range of activities to catalog current climate health impact initiatives and generate new solutions for assessing and addressing issues of climate and community health.

Workshop Snapshots

Key takeaways from each workshop will be published in a "snapshot" report and will include a summary of the knowledge generated during the workshop. In addition, the snapshots will provide a resource repository and, down the line, will help inform a climate and community health toolkit.