CHanGE | Center for Health and the Global Environment

Our work

CHanGE works to train the next generation of researchers and policy makers in climate change and health research.

CHanGE is a community of researchers, staff, students, and community members working together to improve people’s health in a changing environment.

CHanGE researches the effects of global environmental change on human health in order to help communities adapt to likely future scenarios.

CHanGE created an online tool, Chart, to provide decision makers and community members with local data on heat-health risks.

Farming for the future: Building resilient food systems in a changing environment

As environmental change reshapes food systems, experts call for action to strengthen resilience and equity

CHanGE Certificate alumna Daaniya Iyaz on engineering solutions to extreme heat

How this public health leader is drawing on interdisciplinary experiences to help communities prepare for extreme weather events

CHanGE engages in global health scenario workshops amidst intense heatwaves

Summer 2025 brought international collaboration with CHanGE core faculty leading and attending workshops focused on scenario-based research

Amber Khan forges solutions to the housing crisis amid disasters and a changing climate

The UW SPH Outstanding Doctoral Student awardee is building community-led disaster resilience and hope for the future

Hotter summers could be making us sick in unexpected ways

July 31, 2025 | Washington Post | Featured: Kristie Ebi | View

Upcoming Talk: Climate Change and Coastal Peoples: Tribally Led Adaptation in the Gulf of Alaska

January 29, 2025 | Featured: Dr. Matthew Gribble | View

CHanGE PhD Student Haemin Park giving Environmental Health Seminar on Jan. 9: The Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change in the Pacific Islands

January 8, 2025 | DEOHS | Featured: Haemin Park, Kris Ebi | View

Pandemics, vaccines and infectious disease | Nobel Week Dialogue 2024 | The Future of Health

December 18, 2024 | Nobel Prize | Featured: Kristie Ebi | View

Our mission is to develop, implement and evaluate interventions to support health in extreme weather and environmental conditions.