California Office of Health Equity (OHE)
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California Office of Health Equity: the climate-health intersection framing

California's Office of Health Equity increasingly funds at the intersection of climate and health — extreme heat, wildfire smoke, and air quality disproportionately impact low-income communities of color. Frame your health equity project through a climate resilience lens to access this growing funding stream.

Daniel Garcia, MS

Climate Health Program Manager

Inland Empire Climate Health Coalition

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The Strategy

California's Office of Health Equity (OHE), housed in CDPH, has elevated climate health equity as a priority. Communities that experience health inequities are also disproportionately exposed to climate impacts — extreme heat, wildfire smoke, flooding, and air pollution. Proposals that frame health equity through a climate resilience lens access a growing pool of state funding. The framing: don't tack on 'climate' as an afterthought. Center it. Your community's asthma rates aren't just about healthcare access — they're about living near a refinery, in a heat island, with poor housing ventilation. The intervention addresses both: asthma management (clinical) AND air filtration, weatherization, and cool-roof installation (climate/structural). The data: California has excellent climate-health data. CalEnviroScreen shows…

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