Public Health Engagement in Sustainability & Climate Change

Sectors: Climate ChangePublic HealthGreen Building

Challenge:

Develop an action plan for public health engagement with environmental sustainability and climate change initiatives in Northeast Ohio.

Solution:
  • Perform a regional scan to identify the most significant climate-related environmental public health hazards in Northeast Ohio.
  • Build capacity and interagency cooperation around the links between environmental sustainability, climate change, and health.
  • Build consensus among stakeholders around the primary role of public health in regional environmental sustainability and climate change initiatives.
  • Develop a prioritized action plan for expanding the public health role in these areas.
Services:

Consulting
  • Project development and overall management.
  • Workshop facilitation.
  • Strategic consulting and communications support to local public health agencies entering the environmental sustainability and climate change sectors.
  • Performed environmental scan of regional climate-related environmental public health hazards.
  • Facilitated development and prioritization of scenarios illustrating potential roles for public health in environmental sustainability and climate change initiatives.
  • Facilitated coordination among various stakeholder interests.
  • Graphic design.
  • Grant writing.

Applied Research
  • Gap analysis, needs assessment, and action plan.
  • Policy recommendations and talking points identifying priority areas for public health engagement with environmental sustainability and climate change initiatives in Northeast Ohio.
  • White paper summarizing the outcome of the interagency public health, environmental sustainability, and climate change workshop.

Training
  • Developed and delivered the interagency workshop that formed the core of the project.

Client:

Summit County, Ohio Health District; Cuyahoga County, OH Board of Health

 

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