Description
Climate and health data are essential for educating the community about the risks of climate change to health and what communities can do to protect their wellbeing. This information will support local health equity and environmental justice work. Data platforms through PHSKC’s Community Health Indicators and Communities Count will provide supports such as hosting data, indicators, interpretative narrative, conducting local data resource roadshows and presentations, and data storytelling. This work builds on efforts to decolonize climate data by empowering communities to engage in the process of informing, identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing climate and health indicators. Connecting communities to access and use of data that are useful for examining populations of interest and understanding existing inequities and how they will be impacted by climate events.