Resources: Health Professionals
The Basics
- Prepare your clinic for environmental change
Utilize the Americares clinic toolkit for practical resources to combat the challenges associated with environmental change and extreme weather.
- Work with your community to build resilience to environmental change
The APHA's Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) Framework and the CDC's Toolkit for Public Health Outreach can help you learn how to develop and communicate programs that prepare communities for the health effects of environmental change.
- Learn how poor air quality impacts your patients
The EPA's AirNow Program provides training to help you protect your patients' health by reducing their exposure to air pollution.
- Learn how heat impacts your patients
The CDC Heat Health Program provides a guide for clinicians to get started in protecting patients from heat.
Additional Resources
General Resources
A Quick Guide for Public Health Communicators
A guide for public health professionals to communicate the ways public health and the environment are interconnected.
Climate and Health Resources for Public Health Professionals
The CDC provides resources for public health professionals, including guidance documents, toolkits, and other materials to use in environmental adaptation planning and implementation.
The Climate & Health Grand Rounds Toolkit
This toolkit equips health professionals using the classic case-based structure of grand rounds. This format allows presenters to teach prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of medical conditions related to environmental health.
Air Quality
Americares Wildfire Smoke Action Plan
Americares provides an assessment, action plan, and toolkit to help clinics prepare themselves and their communities for wildfire smoke.
CDC-provided guide for healthcare providers on using and communicating the air quality index to patients.
Heat
Extreme Heat & Health: Strategies for Prevention and Action Training
In partnership with the American Public Health Association and Climate for Health, this training equips participants with the tools to engage clinicians, public health professionals, policymakers, and community stakeholders in taking action on extreme heat. Individuals can earn three FREE continuing education credits when they complete the course.
Americares Extreme Heat Response
This heat response guidance and checklist are designed to help clinics and health centers maintain situational awareness and clinic operations during extreme heat events. It outlines actions to take when extreme heat is in the forecast and during an ongoing extreme heat event.
Americares Heat Facility Preparedness Annual Checklist
This checklist is designed to assist health centers in developing annual or long-term policies and procedures for ensuring the facility is resilient and prepared for an extreme heat event.
Veterinarians
Educational materials, fact sheets, and more information for veterinarians with patients exposed to harmful algae.
Pathway to a Sustainable Clinic
Course dedicated to helping veterinary teams adopt sustainable practices.
Online learning course to help veterinarians learn how to care for livestock amid environmental change.
