Climate Action Team Public Health Workgroup Meetings

This page last reviewed December 4, 2012

Workgroup Schedule:

Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 1:00 p.m.

• Extreme Heat Adaptation Interim Guidance: Public Review and Comment Period-Update

• Presentation: Climate Change and Heat Vulnerability Assessment: Developing a Climate Adaptation Plan to Protect Health in San Francisco

• Lessons for improving our Heat Preparedness and Response Plan
• Lessons for other Health Departments
• Presentation:  Resources for Climate Adaptation and Health Planning: CDPH's new CDC grant Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (CALBRACE)
• Presentation:  Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (CALBRACE)

• Updates and discussion
  
  -State Climate Adaptation Strategy Update (2013)
  -Regional Adaptation Planning Efforts
• Planning for 2013 PHWG meetings

• For those who cannot attend in person, the meeting will be WEBCAST.
• Webcast viewers: Please send your questions during the broadcast to: sierrarm@calepa.ca.gov

Archive of Meetings:

September 10, 2012

• Agenda
• Video (mp4)
  
• Review of 2012 Update of the State Climate Adaptation Strategy
  • Overview of overall document, timeline, public comment
• Presentation of the Extreme Health Adaptation Interim Guidance and Recommendations
• Extreme Heat Adaptation Interim Guidance Document

July 9, 2012

• Agenda
• Video (mp4)
  
• Overview of 2012 Update of the State Climate Adaptation Strategy (CAS)
  Kurt Malchow, Natural Resources Agency, Climate Adaptation Program
• Review Public Health Adaptation Chapter
  Kathy Dervin and Neil Maizlish, CDPH
• Short Reports and Announcements
  • Release of local Climate Adaptation Policy Guide (Cal-EMA/Natural Resources publication)

April 30, 2012

• Agenda
• Video (mp4)
• Presentations
  • Climate Change and California Agriculture
  • Sustainable Farming

November 28, 2011

• Agenda
• Video (mp4)
• Presentations
  • Climate Vulnerability Assessment Pilot Project
    • Part I
    • Part II
  • Active Transportation study: Assessing the Health Benefits of Increased active transformation using MTC scenarios

July 14, 2011

• Agenda
• Presentations
  • Climate Change Communication and Health
  • Sample Health Language for Climate Action Plans
• Background Material
  • Ed Maibach’s Primer on Communicating the Human Implications of Climate Change

December 1, 2010

• Agenda
• CDPH HIA Presentation
• Draft Cap-and-Trade Regulation

September 13, 2010

• Presentations
  • HIA Phase 2
  • Public Health Benefits of Active Transportation Woodcock Model
• Background Materials
  • Lancet's Series in Health and Climate Change, Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

April 20, 2010

• Agenda
• List of Attendees 4/20/10
• Presentations
  • Public Health Impacts of Heat, Surveillance and Climate Change Challenges, Paul English
  • Mitigating Urban Heat Island Effects, Neelam-R Patel
  • California’s Heat Contingency Plan, Moustafa Abou-Taleb
  • Review Work Plan, Aimee Sisson
• Background Documents
  • Priorities Matrix
  • Expanded Work Plan
  • Cal EMA's Heat Plan
  • USEPA - Reducing Urban Heat Islands
  • USEPA Heat Islands Website

February 8, 2010

CAT Public Health Workgroup meeting

• Agenda
• HIA Priorities
• List of Attendees for 2/8/10

January 27, 2010

HIA Cap-and-Trade brainstorming meeting

• Revised Agenda
• HIA Framework (Revised 2/4/10)
• HIA Pathways (Revised 2/8/10)
• List of Attendees for 1/27/10
• Comments:
  • Rajiv Bhatia (SF DPH)
  • Alice Kaswan (U of SF Law)
  • Neil Maizlish, PhD (Berkeley PHD)
  • ALA, NRDC and Coalition for Clean Air
  • Coalition for Clean Air, EPA Report
  • CCEEB
  • Christopher Brown Mendocino County
  • AB 32 Implementation Group
    

December 17, 2009

Climate Action Team Public Health Workgroup

• Proposed Agenda
• Meeting Handouts from the December 14th Public Meeting to Discuss a California Cap-and-Trade Program
• Preliminary Draft Cap-and-Trade Regulation (PDR)
• Cap-and-Trade Health Impact Assessment Overview
• List of Attendees for 12/17/09
• Presentations:
  • Cap-and-Trade Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Overview (ARB)
• Proposed Pathways for the Cap-and-Trade HIA (DPH)
• Proposed Pathways for the Cap-and-Trade HIA (DPH) (Revised)

September 14, 2009

Climate Action Team Public Health Workgroup

• Proposed Agenda
• Working Draft: A Guide for Health Impact Assessment (Rajiv Bhatia)
• Accepting Comments Through September 28, 2009
  
  Please send all Comments to Linda Rudolph
• List of Attendees for 9/14/09
• Presentations:
  • HIA guidelines (Rajiv Bhatia – UCSF & SF DPH)
  • Cap-and-trade (CARB)
  • Adaptation strategy (CDPH)
    • Overview of California Adaptation Strategy
    • Public Health Sector
  • Water and drought impacts (DWR & CDPH)
    • Water Impacts
    • Drought Impacts
    • Climate Change, Water & Health

July 6, 2009

Climate Action Team Public Health Workgroup

• Revised Agenda
• Draft Charter & Work Plan
• Meeting Notes
• List of Attendees 07/06/09
• Presentations:
  • ARB work on Identification of Impacted Communities
  • Consideration of Climate Change in SIP Air Quality Modeling
• Video:

June 18, 2009

Climate Action Team Public Health Workgroup

• Agenda
• Draft Charter
• Draft Work Plan
• Meeting Notes
• List of Attendees 06/18/09
• Presentations:
  • Brief overview of Public Health and Climate Change
  • Schedule for development of AB 32 Scoping Plan Measures
• Process and tools to identify impacted communities as required by
  AB 32 Part I and Part II
• Video: