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Climate change is among the most important and urgent global health threats and opportunities of the 21st Century.

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About the Program

The Climate Communities Network (CCN) will bring together community leaders (鈥淢embers鈥) who work for community-based organizations in U.S. communities that are disproportionately impacted by climate change and related health impacts. The CCN will elevate community expertise, experience, and efforts to address structural contributors to climate-related health outcomes in Member communities.

Alongside CCN Strategic Partners, who will be invited representatives from government, philanthropy, academia, and industry, CCN Members will influence and work across the Climate Grand Challenge to catalyze innovation, inform policy, drive funding, and co-design solutions.

The CCN will have two initial main goals:

 

  • Inform the strategic direction and outcomes of the Climate Grand Challenge.
  • Work collaboratively to identify and develop solutions to reduce disproportionate health impacts.

Why Community Solutions Matter for Climate Change

Many U.S. communities do not have access to the resources and infrastructure needed to keep people and neighborhoods healthy, particularly in the context of the worsening climate crisis. These communities are also often not engaged as equal partners in the decisions that affect their health and well-being.

In response to this, the NAM established the CCN and called for membership applications from local leaders representing community-based organizations that serve areas disproportionately affected by health-related impacts of climate change. Strategic Partners representing government, philanthropy, academia, and industry were invited to work alongside the selected Members to catalyze innovation, inform policy, drive resources, and co-design solutions.

As part of the CCN, Members will share their community鈥檚 stories, expertise, and experience; elevate work in their community or organization to address climate-related health outcomes; access partnerships and tools to advance solutions; help inform climate-related policy, research, and other interventions; and influence the direction of the NAM鈥檚 climate work. Fundamentally, the CCN aims to provide a leadership platform for communities disproportionately impacted by climate change and related health outcomes. Together, Members and Strategic Partners, facilitated by the NAM, will become a community of practice, and Strategic Partners will play a critical role in co-designing and bringing to fruition community-determined solutions to climate-related health impacts.

Staff

Funmi Chinekezi,听Director, Program Officer
Chris Hanley, Senior Program Officer
Cady Hyde, Senior Program Assistant
Emma Lower-McSherry,听Research Associate
Samantha Phillips, Communications Officer
Grace Robbins,听Associate Program Officer
Shaneah Taylor, Deputy Director of Programs

Sponsors

AstraZeneca
National Academies鈥 Gulf Research Program
The JPB Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Steering Committee

Jerry P. Abraham (Co-chair) (Member) | CDU-KEDREN Mobile Street Medicine (Kedren Community Health Center & Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science)
Blake Ellis | Chico State Enterprises
Gabriela Lemus | Maryland Latinos Unidos
Jessica Nadler | Deloitte

Cynthia Robertson | Micah Six Eight Mission
Sheetal Rao | Nordson Green Earth Foundation
Raymond Sweet | Hollygrove Dixon Neighborhood Association
Zorie Valchev (Co-chair) (Strategic Partner) | AstraZeneca
Rajul Pandya (Advisor) | Arizona State University
Shaneah Taylor (Co-chair) (Staff) | National Academy of Medicine

Want to get involved? Contact us at听ClimateCommunities@nas.edu鈥. You can also 听for program updates.

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