Date and Time: July 24, 2024 at 2:00 PM ET

Overview

Join representatives from the CDC, Harvard C-CHANGE, and NACHC as they share new heat forecasting, clinical guidance, and alerts to help health center providers reduce the risk of negative health impacts from heat exposure.

Learning Objectives

• Understand current heat landscape and populations that are impacted
• Learn about and employ new resources to protect health center patients and communities from heat
• Discuss promising ideas for collaboration to protect patients and communities from heat

Takeaways

Participants will leave the webinar and be able to

• Implement new patient action plans and clinical guidance for heat 
• Know the heat risk in their area at least one week in advance
• Sign-up for heat email alerts that are based on their zip code
• Have conversations with informatics teams about using electronic health records and text message service providers to alert providers and patients about heat

Speakers

• Aaron (Ari) Bernstein, MD, MPH, Director for the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Ben Money, MPH, Senior Vice President of Population Health, National Association of Community Health Centers
• Laura Seeff, MD, Senior Medical Advisor for the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Ambarish Vaidyanathan, PhD, Health Scientist for the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Caleb Dresser, MD, MPH, Director of Healthcare Solutions, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE
• Sweta Waghela, MPH, Project Coordinator, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE
• Noah Pierce, MEd, Deputy Director of Informatics Projects, National Association of Community Health Centers
• Jessica Hinshaw, MPH, Director of Environmental Health, National Association of Community Health Centers