Health professionals advancing climate solutions for a healthier future.
We center health equity in climate change conversations and foster health system and community resilience to a changing climate.
Climate change is already harming health and impacting healthcare delivery in North Carolina.
Climate change affects all North Carolinians, but low-wealth communities and communities of color have been put at greater risk of harm from extreme heat, poor air quality, severe hurricanes, and other climate-related disasters.
Our prescription for healthy communities starts here.
We partner with communities and health systems to build resilience to a changing climate.
Climate change is a health equity crisis.
As public health practitioners, physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals from across North Carolina, we recognize climate change as a global health crisis that is exacerbating health disparities right here in NC.
We have an obligation to protect the health of current and future generations. We have a responsibility to minimize our health systems’ contribution to climate change. And we have an opportunity to re-imagine a healthcare system that bolsters communities against the impacts of climate change.
Through education, advocacy, community engagement, and climate-smart healthcare initiatives, we are taking action to ensure robust health systems and thriving communities in a changing climate.
“The evidence is overwhelming: climate change endangers human health. Solutions exist and we need to act decisively to change this trajectory”
— Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General