Environmental Health and Climate Change – Call for Proposals

The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) is pleased to announce the 10th Annual National Tribal Public Health Summit, taking place May 13-15, 2019 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The event will be held at the Albuquerque Convention Center and is expected to attract over 500 Tribal public health professionals, elected leaders, advocates, researchers, federal employees, subject matter experts, and community-based service providers.

This year’s event will host an Environmental Health and Climate Change track. NIHB is currently accepting proposals for this track! Learn more below. NIHB also plans to host an in-person event at the conference for the Climate and Health Learning Community. More information will be available closer to the event.

If you are interested in attending the National Tribal Public Health Summit, please save the date and look out for more information coming soon about registration, location, lodging, exhibitors, and sponsorships. You are receiving this email because you are part of NIHB’s Climate List/Climate and Health Learning Community. To stay up-to-date on the latest conference news, sign up for NIHB’s Public Health List here.

Environmental Health and Climate Change Track – Call for Proposals

NIHB is currently accepting proposals for the Environmental Health and Climate Change Track. Environmental health focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment with an emphasis on promoting human health and well-being, and fostering healthy and safe communities. Environmental stressors, from both the natural and built environment and climate change pose unique risks for AI/AN populations across Indian Country. These stressors can affect everything from fish and animal migration patterns to water availability and sanitation, allergen levels, air pollution, severe weather occurrences, physical and mental health problems, prevalence of vector borne disease, and a multitude of other factors. Facing these and other challenges are an important component of maintaining holistic health. Proposals submitted under this track can include, but are not limited to, topics such as:

·     Best practices in public health interventions for environmental health;

·     Research on environmental health in Tribal communities;

·     Assessments, including developing climate impact assessments for Tribal communities;

·     Developing climate and health adaptation plans;

·     Subsistence strategies to face changing environments;

·     Environmental health and cancer;

·     Water, food, and land security;

·     The relationship between health and industry, energy, and pollution;

·     Mitigating vector-borne diseases;

·     Projects that demonstrate the health effects of climate change or environmental health;

·     Housing and health (mold, asthma, flooding, heating with woodstove indoors, constructive materials); and

·     Protective and resiliency factors in environmental health.

You can also learn more about other conference tracks by clicking the button above.

NIHB is pleased to offer a limited number of scholarships this year for presenters on the Environmental Health and Climate Change Track. Conference admission fees will be waived and scholarship recipients will receive up to $1200-$1500 to support travel costs. NIHB may coordinate with you to make travel arrangements on your behalf, to include flight or hotel, in order to ensure the most efficient use of funds. Scholarship recipients/applicants should not book travel without coordinating with NIHB.

If you are interested in a scholarship, please submit your proposal using the button in this email above. Following your submission, please email Angelica Al Janabi at aaljanabi@nihb.org to request a scholarship and please include a brief explanation of why you need, or could benefit from, this scholarship.

Learn more about the Climate Ready Tribes project here.

You may contact Angelica at 202-507-4074 or aaljanabi@nihb.org with questions.