Climate and Health Resources

Key Reports

• Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change
• COP28 UAE Declaration on climate and health
• WHO Special Report on Health and Climate Change
• Fifth National Climate Assessment: Human Health

Climate Change and Children’s Health

• Overview
• Allergies
• Asthma
• Children’s Brain
• Equity
• Heatwaves
• Mental Health
• Pregnancy: Low Birth Weight
• Pregnancy: Preterm Birth
• Wildfires

Videos

• Climate, Pollution, and Children’s Health
• How to prevent future pandemics
• Climate actions to improve kids’ health
• Reducing Asthma by Tackling the Climate Crisis
• What pregnant women should know
• Climate Change and a Child’s Developing Brain
• Climate and Heat
• Climate and Healthcare Industry’s response
• How to take your climate actions to the next level
• Harvard Chan C-CHANGE on YouTube

Infographics

• How Climate Change Affects Your Health Infographics (Air Quality, Extreme Weather, Rising Temperatures, Vector-Borne Diseases, Overview) (APHA)
• Climate and Health Posters for Patients (Center for Climate Change & Health)
• Climate Change and Health (Lancet)
• Health and Climate: Co-Benefits (BMJ)
• Interactive Graphic on the Climate Crisis (NEJM)

Health Care Industry

• Climate MD: Preparing a climate-ready healthcare workforce
• Resources for providers and health care workers on extreme heat, wildfires, hurricanes, and floods
• The Climate Crisis and Clinical Practice (NEJM)
• A Pediatrician’s Guide to Climate Change-Informed Primary Care

Communicating About Climate and Health

• A New Era in Climate Communications
• Climate communication: 10 research-backed tips
• Communicating Statistics on the Health Effects of Climate Change (NEJM)
• Resources for Covering Climate Change, A Workshop for Journalists by the Nieman Foundation and Harvard Chan C-CHANGE
• Visualizations and Data, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
• Climate Visuals Photo Database
• Messaging Guide: Encouraging Public Officials to Lead on Climate and Health