CSTE Climate, Health, & Equity Subcommittee

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.

Upcoming Webinar

If you missed the CSTE Climate, Health, and Equity Subcommittee call in July, Joan and Meredith Barrett will be presenting on October 20th:

Please join us for an upcoming webinar that Joan Casey from Columbia University and I will be presenting on October 20th. We’ll be discussing our recent research showing how the retirement or retrofit of coal-fired power plants in the Louisville, KY area led to a significant reduction in air pollutants as well as improvements in asthma outcomes for nearby residents. The work was published earlier this year in Nature Energy
 
The webinar is open to the public and free to attend. It’s on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 11 a.m. PT (2 p.m. ET), and you can register at this link: https://bit.ly/2HeXmpx