Description
APHA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are proud to present the webinar Climate Changes Health: Two CDC BRACE Grantees Take Steps Toward Adaptation on Sept. 16, 2015 from 1 - 2 p.m. EDT. The webinar will provide information about the CDC’s BRACE (Building Resilience Against Climate Effects) framework and share climate adaptation steps communities in Oregon and Vermont are taking to prevent the health threats related to climate change.
View webinar slides (PDF): INTRODUCTION, BRENDON HAGGERTY OF OREGON, JARED ULMER OF VERMONT
Welcome:
Surili Sutaria Patel, MS
Senior Program Manager, Environmental Health
Center for Public Health Policy
American Public Health Association
Moderator: Overview of the CDC BRACE Program
Paul Schramm, MPH, MS
Health Scientist
Climate and Health Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Presentations:
Oregon Climate and Health Program Overview
Brendon Haggerty, MURP
Environmental Epidemiologist
Climate and Health Program
Oregon Health Authority
Building Resilience Against Climate Effects in Vermont
Jared Ulmer, AICP, MPH
Coordinator
Climate Change Adaptation Program
Vermont Department of Health
Follow the conversation on social media using the hashtag #ClimateChangesHealth. For more information on other how communities are successfully using the BRACE framework to lead their climate and health adaptation efforts, please see the Adaptation in Action Report.
This webinar was funded through cooperative agreement U38OT000131 between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Public Health Association. The contents of this webinar are solely the responsibility of the presenters and do not necessarily represent the official views of the American Public Health Association or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.