December 12, 2023, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. MST
Climate Change Impacts on Children’s Health and Well-Being
Webinar Description:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released Climate Change Impacts on Children’s Health and Well-Being in the United States, which analyzes the effects of climate change on children’s health through the end of the century. The report considered five climate change-related stressors—heat, air quality, changes in seasonality, infectious disease, and flooding—to provide projections of how each stressor might impact children across the country under different levels of warming.
The report also delves into further analyzes of how certain populations of children may be disproportionately affected by a particular stressor and health outcome. For example, it projects new asthma diagnoses among children might result from climate change-induced changes to air quality.
Join EPA scientists Caitlin Gould and Lauren Gentile as they discuss the findings of the report and how they can be applied to develop effective and equitable strategies for protecting current and future generations of children.
Speakers:
Caitlin Gould, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Lauren Gentile, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Natural Hazards Center Overview Slides
Presentation Slides
Resources
Climate Change and Children’s Health and Well-Being in the United States Report
Climate Change Impacts and Risk Analysis Project (CIRA)
Continuing Education Credits:
This webinar is eligible for one contact hour of emergency management training within the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) certification program. For more information about continuing education credits and how to earn them, please click here.
Caitlin Gould is an environmental health scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Science and Impacts Branch. She predominantly works on the Climate Change Impacts and Risk Analysis project. Gould has a background in mixed-methods research, occupational health, and marine biology. Her Doctor of Public Health degree is in environmental health and engineering.
Lauren Gentile (pronounced “jen-TILL-ee”) is a geographer and environmental social scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) in the Climate Change Division. She currently works on a range of analytical efforts, including the Climate Change Impacts and Risk Analysis project and the Climate Change Indicators project. She is also a co-manager of EPA’s Climate Change website and leads climate change adaptation for OAR.