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A Weekly Health Policy Round Up From Health Affairs            

**December 27, 2020**

IN THE JOURNAL

CLIMATE & HEALTH

Community-Driven Approaches To Climate Change

There is an urgent need to build climate-resilient communities and
health systems, but these solutions must be tailored to the specific
values and needs of individual communities. Paul J. Schramm and
coauthors discuss how Indigenous communities are adapting to climate
change
;
and Christopher J. Boyer and coauthors offer considerations for
implementing climate and health strategies in Pacific Island countries
.

Health Risks Due To Climate Change

Climate variability and change are harming human health. The health
risks associated with a changing climate create new inequities and
exacerbate those that already exist
,
explain Kristie Ebi and Jeremy Hess in an overview piece on the topic.
In a related article, Ebi and coauthors describe detection and
attribution methods used by climatologists

to study climate change and discuss why this field of study should be
applied to understand how climate change is affecting health. Ebi also
joins us for a conversation on this week's podcast.

GRANTWATCH

Climate Change And Health: Recently Funded Projects

By Lee L. Prina

The December 2020 GrantWatch column provides a sampling of foundations
that have funded efforts on climate change's relation to health. Equity
is an important facet of both a program funded by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation and an initiative funded by the Kresge Foundation.
Also, read about the 2019 Climate Campaign, funded by four foundations.
Its aim was "to demonstrate that reframing climate change as a health
crisis could move Americans to support stronger climate action from
their elected representatives." The column has some "people news,"
too-find out who now leads the bioethics-focused Greenwall Foundation,
and more. Read More >