3rd annual Heat and Human Health Summit for healthcare providers, will be held on August 16, 2025  Register Here.
- The AAP-CA3 Climate Change & Health Committee helps sponsor an annual Environmental Art Contest for Youth.
- Love Your Wetlands Day in February
- More events! The Climate Change and Health Committee is always collaborating with other climate-friendly healthcare workers on events, especially for Earth Day! See the latest newsletter for more information.
Resource Links
CalAdapt Extreme Heat Days and Warm Nights Tool
California Healthy Places Index Extreme Heat Edition – provides datasets on projected heat exposure for California and place-based indicators measuring community conditions and sensitive populations.
OEHHA – California Communities Extreme Heat Scoring System
Southern California Wildfire Response- What Clinicians Need to Know- Virtual Grand Rounds
Tracking California, Heat-Related Illness
UCLA Heat Maps – an interactive map of California that shows the daily excess number of ER visits and rate of excess ER visits due to extreme heat.
New Resource from the CC&H Committee! Keep It Cool, Kids— a printable flyer, poster, and online resources in English and Spanish for kids and heat-related climate change information.
The Shade Map, now available through American Forests’ Tree Equity Score platform, shows where shade exists — and where it doesn’t — in 101 of the largest urbanized areas in the country, covering more than 360 cities and towns. It visualizes how shade from trees and buildings changes throughout the day, including parcel-level data in select cities, providing decision-makers with data to guide investments in local heat resilience efforts.