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