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Ten cities will conduct Urban Heat Island mapping

Follow along as cities plan their campaigns, recruit and train community groups and citizen science volunteers, map temperatures across their cities, and use their maps to take action to build resilience to extreme heat.

Organizing and running a successful campaign requires completion of a series of steps and sub-steps. Watch progress and be aware of next steps with this weekly dashboard.

 
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GHHIN hosts webinar on Dialogues on Heat in the City and in the Workplace 29 July 2020

GHHIN hosts webinar on Dialogues on Heat in the City and in the Workplace

On July 28th and 29th, the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) hosted discussions on the urgent challenges of extreme heat in urban areas and in occupational settings. The discussions were moderated by Thomson Reuters reporters, and featured experts from government, academia, and industry.

2020 Heat Watch Campaigns Progressing, Innovating 24 July 2020

2020 Heat Watch Campaigns Progressing, Innovating

Throughout the summer, innovations from each of the 2020 Heat Watch cohort cities will be highlighted via NIHHIS and the Heat Beat Newsletter and shared for learning between campaign teams.

NOAA supports virtual symposium: Climatological, Meteorological and Environmental factors in the COVID-19 pandemic 22 July 2020

NOAA supports virtual symposium: Climatological, Meteorological and Environmental factors in the COVID-19 pandemic

The symposium will help determine how NOAA's climate, weather and environmental information can be usefully applied to and better serve the health community in predicting and managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Podcast: Can't Take the Heat 14 July 2020

New Podcast: Can't Take the Heat

GHHIN & NIHHIS Partner: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

The 'Can't Take the Heat' podcast explores how people will adapt to a warming world. Host Roop Singh approaches the biggest challenges posed by climate change, like more intense and frequent heatwaves, from a humanitarian perspective. How will the impacts of climate change affect people around the world? What are the big solutions that are in the works? How do we make them happen? The podcast features experts from around the world including leading scientists developing climate solutions, and humanitarian volunteers telling stories of climate change from the frontlines of disasters.

CDC Launches Heat & Health Tracker Tool 13 July 2020

CDC Launches Heat & Health Tracker Tool

NIHHIS Partner: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a first-of-its-kind online tool to help emergency and public health planners prepare for and respond to extreme heat events. The Heat & Health Tracker provides timely, user-friendly, local-level heat and health data and information.

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NIHHIS is an integrated information system that builds understanding of the problem of extreme heat, defines demand for climate services that enhance societal resilience, develops science-based products and services from a sustained climate science research program, and improves capacity, communication, and societal understanding of the problem in order to reduce morbidity and mortality due to extreme heat.  NIHHIS is a jointly developed system by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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