Policy & Organizing
Climate Justice
Building a regenerative future by uniting health equity and climate justice movements
Climate change is the greatest public health threat facing humanity, and a multiplier of existing health inequities.
We confront the root causes of both climate and health injustice, which are the unequal distribution of power, especially corporate power, and systems of oppression, especially structural racism and extractive capitalism.
We envision a world where the public health sector is working alongside climate justice organizing groups to transform harmful systems, hold Big Oil accountable for the damage they’ve done to our health, communities, and the climate, and collectively build a climate resilient, regenerative, and just future with health equity at the center.
We support climate justice movements by:
- Supporting community power-building organizations and networks in their climate justice campaigns with public health advocacy, organizing, research, and narratives
- Advocating with climate justice organizing networks to advance fossil fuel accountability and transformative solutions, such as through the Fossil Free for Health Coalition, the California Green New Deal Coalition, and the Make Polluters Pay Coalition
- Organizing and mobilizing public health organizations and individuals to support climate justice campaigns
- Assisting government agencies to adopt policies and systems changes that improve climate and health inequities
- Shifting the narrative about climate and health equity, by challenging dominant narratives that stop effective climate action and replacing them with transformative narratives about how just climate policies can create safe, dignified, and healthy jobs, housing, and communities
- Providing policy-driven research on health equity impacts to support campaigns and movements
We support climate justice movements by:
- American University
- Boston University School of Public Health
- Capella University
- Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
- City University of New York
- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
- Colorado School of Public Health
- Drexel University
- Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
- George Washington University
- Georgia State University
- Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Howard University
- Iowa State University
- Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Northeastern University
- Northwestern University
- Oregon Health and Science University and Portland State University School of Public Health
- Rutgers University
- San Diego State University School of Public Health
- San Francisco State University
- San Jose State University
- Seattle University
- Tufts University
- Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- University of California Berkeley School of Public Health
- University of California Davis
- University of California Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health
- University of Central Arkansas
- University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health
- University of Iowa College of Public Health
- University of Maryland School of Public Health
- University of Michigan School of Public Health
- Wayne State University
- University of Minnesota School of Public Health
- University of Minnesota Medical School
- University of Oxford
- University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
- University of South Florida College of Public Health
- University of Southern California
- University of Victoria
- University of Washington School of Public Health
- University of Wisconsin Madison
- University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health
We support climate justice movements by:
- Supporting community power-building organizations and networks in their climate justice campaigns with public health advocacy, organizing, research, and narratives
- Advocating with climate justice organizing networks to advance fossil fuel accountability and transformative solutions, such as through the Fossil Free for Health Coalition, the California Green New Deal Coalition, and the Make Polluters Pay Coalition
- Organizing and mobilizing public health organizations and individuals to support climate justice campaigns
- Assisting government agencies to adopt policies and systems changes that improve climate and health inequities
- Shifting the narrative about climate and health equity, by challenging dominant narratives that stop effective climate action and replacing them with transformative narratives about how just climate policies can create safe, dignified, and healthy jobs, housing, and communities
- Providing policy-driven research on health equity impacts to support campaigns and movements
From our partners
“While [we are] not experts on public health, nor do we document or study it, it is the reason our communities are organizing.”
Marion Gee
Climate Justice Alliance
October 11, 2024
Stop Cop Cities: Invest in Public Health Solutions
Drawing from public health literature and the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, Georgia, we authored a research report on the health harms posed by the growing number of police training facilities, commonly referred to as “Cop Cities.”
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