The mandate
Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment. This is the promise every funded dollar has to keep.
“Put science into climate action through research, education, and outreach that protects the health of people most vulnerable to climate change — at every level: individuals, health care systems, communities and cities, and national and global policy.”
Enroll 240 COPD patients across 3 Boston-area sites to test whether in-home HEPA filtration reduces exacerbations.
Deploy climate-resilience playbooks to 40 FQHCs and train 1,200 clinicians on climate-and-health curricula.
Cumulative-impact monitoring across 21 environmental-justice census tracts; heat-stress interventions in Boston, South Africa, Madagascar.
Link environmental exposure data to national health datasets in India, Madagascar, and Nepal; produce benefit-cost analyses to inform policy.