Environment and Human Health Workgroup

About the project

The mission of the NNPHI’s Environment and Human Health Workgroup is to “serve as a trusted consortium in adapting, preparing for, and recovering from the impacts of climate change and environmental disasters.” The workgroup meets to create resources, highlights what public health institutes are doing in climate action and participates in network and partner climate events.

Floodwaters cover the parking lot of a mall in Peoria, Illinois.
Photo credit: Jay Babin, Creative Commons
Meet the 2025 workgroup

Bringing together public health institute and external partner experts with local expertise and lived experiences.

Sunset in Los Angeles during a heat wave.

Storytelling map

Learn how public health institutes in the workgroup are addressing air quality and extreme heat, food security and nutrition, environmental justice, mental health, disaster preparedness and response, healthy housing, water-related issues and more.

Public health institute partners

External partners