The University of California Center for Climate, Health, and Equity, American Climate Leadership Awards 2025 Finalist

Winner, Runner-Up will be Announced on April 16, 2025

The following blog is a part of our American Climate Leadership Award 2025 Series.

The University of California Center for Climate, Health, and Equity is among 10 American Climate Leadership Award finalists to be recognized at the American Climate Leadership Awards Broadcast on April 16.

The University of California Center for Climate, Health and Equity (CCHE) was founded in 2021 and builds its activities around four pillars of research, education, health systems sustainability and preparedness, and policy with an emphasis on trans-disciplinary collaborations. The Center’s numerous projects drive climate action. Last year, they created vulnerability profiles using machine learning to identify at-risk populations in California and developed an interactive map of climate and health variables to be used by communities, policy makers and researchers.

They evaluated clinical climate emergency responses at Health- facilities and collaborated with the San Francisco Department of Public Health to build a city-wide clinical climate emergency response plan. They elevated clinical decarbonization as a healthcare priority, including training a cohort of health professionals through a Clinical Decarbonization Fellowship — the first of its kind in the nation. In partnership with the American Medical Association, CCHE developed the Climate Change and Health Equity Continuing Education Series, which provides healthcare providers with free education on topics related to climate change and health. They launched a climate and mental health resilience course, taught to students across all 10 UC campuses and identified opportunities to address climate change in curricula for pharmacy, nursing, public health, and medicine through a Climate and Health Education Ambassadorship program. They also developed and led the University of California-wide Climate and Health Education Faculty Development initiative, which has trained over 100 faculty members to integrate climate and health into their ongoing teaching, reaching more than 7000 health professional and science students.

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