Background: CSTE brought together a group of epidemiologists to establish the State Environmental Health Indicators Collaborative (SEHIC) in 2004 with the purpose of creating environmental public health indicators for surveillance.
Statement of Purpose: Building the climate, health and equity skills and network for members and partners involved in state and local climate and health work while providing a way for climate epidemiologists to collectively raise new issues of importance in the field of public health.
Vision : An engaged community for epidemiologists to voice concerns, and to share resources, skills, lessons learned and best practices in the field of climate, health and equity.
Mission: To develop, support and build climate, health and equity practices at the state and local level.
Monday, March 25th @ 2pm ET: Implementation of BRACE across states / How to use climate projection data to characterize health risks
Monday, May 27th @ 2pm ET (Memorial Day)/Needs to be Rescheduled: Climate change-related public health adaptation planning and response (Dr. Tania Busch, University of Washington)
Monday, July 22nd @ 2pm ET: Brian McInerney, NOAA Hydrologist
Monday, September 23rd @ 2pm ET: Mapping the Urban Health Island (MD)
Monday, November 25th @ 2pm ET: AIR Conditioning as durable medical equipment (NYC DOH)
