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Washington StateThe Collaborative on Health and the Environment – Washington

A Partnership Network for Environmental Health
Established and Coordinated by the Institute for Children's Environmental Health
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Climate Change and Health Working Group

This working group is chaired by Roger Rosenblatt, MD, MPH, MFR, professor and vice chair of the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine. Contact him at rosenb@u.washington.edu.

CHE-WA Climate Change and Health Working Group has published a fact sheet focused on the health impacts of climate change with the intention of developing specific actions to protect public health, particularly the health of children.

In addition, Commonweal recently published a paper titled "Climate Change and Children's Health: What Health Professionals Need to Know and What We Can Do About It." This paper was distributed at a September 2007 meeting of the Institute of Medicine.

Visit Seattle Climate Action Now, an effort to give everyone in Seattle the tools needed to start making a real difference at home, at work and on the road. It will bring people together across the street and across town to take action to protect the climate for all of us and for future generations.

The Working Group welcomes new members.