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Children & Youth Mental Health: Climate Week 2024

Climate for Health

Thank you to the American Public Health Association and the Climate Mental Health Network for co-hosting a session at Climate Week in New York City focusing on youth mental health.

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AI and Public Health Film, a collaboration on the 5th International Public Health Film Competition

Better Health For All

Progress within the field of AI and public health promises to offer profound opportunities to improve health and wellbeing. While also generating new and exacerbating known health harms, raising challenging ethical and policy questions. And the winner is….

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APHA Empowers the Public Health Field to Face the Climate Crisis at the 2024 Annual Meeting

Climate for Health

Climate change is one of the most pressing public health issues of our time. We’ve seen record-breaking heat, devastating wildfires, storms and prolonged droughts impacting our health and mental well-being.

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‘Living under this constant threat’: Environmental defenders face a mounting mental health crisis

Environmental Health News

Support for mental health in these systems, however, is close to nonexistent, said Lourdes Castro, coordinator of the Somos Defensores program, which monitors violence against human rights defenders in Colombia. Soon, centers focused on the mental health of human rights activists and land defenders started cropping up.

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Many undocumented health problems discovered among those exposed to bushfire smoke

Frontiers

The physical and mental burden of prolonged exposure to bushfire smoke is vastly underestimated by official statistics that are based upon admissions into the health system, finds a large survey of residents affected by the widespread bushfires close to Canberra, Australia’s capital city, in the summer of late 2019 and early 2020.

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Building the next generation of public health workers

NC Health News

By Rachel Crumpler The COVID-19 pandemic shined a light on the critical role of public health workers. The work was visible as society reeled from an unprecedented health emergency that disrupted life for so many. The work was visible as society reeled from an unprecedented health emergency that disrupted life for so many.

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Opposing fracking cost one Colombian activist her mental health. She’s fighting to win it back.

Environmental Health News

In an interview, Morales Blanco, the daughter of a fisherman, details her fight to stop fracking in Puerto Wilches and nationwide, her struggles with mental health following years of persistent threats and violence, and the lack of recognition and institutional support available to environmental leaders. Public safety was nonexistent.