OCCHE has created guide for communities – PDF opens in a new tab to create their own Seasonal Forecast for Health (like the Climate and Health Outlook) tailored to their communities’ unique needs. Click here to give us your feedback about this tool Welcome to the twenty-eighth edition of the Climate and Health Outlook from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE). The Climate and Health Outlook is an effort to inform health professionals and the public on how our health may be affected in the coming months by climate events and provide resources to take proactive action. This edition provides forecasts for drought, wildfire, and winter weather in December 2024 as well as how to protect yourself and others’ health from these climate hazards including with the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). This webpage includes additional resources and information excluded from the PDF summary, including regional prospective forecasts. Download the Climate and Health Outlook for December 2024 – PDF If you’d like to receive the Climate and Health Outlook each month, please subscribe to OCCHE Alerts opens in a new tab. OCCHE and the HHS Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) launched the Climate and Health Outlook Portal to accompany this publication series. This tool features interactive maps with county-level heat, wildfire, and drought forecasts for the current month along with county-level data on individual risk factors that may make people more vulnerable to negative health outcomes from these climate hazards. OCCHE plans to update the tool with new features including additional climate-related hazard and risk factor data and welcomes user feedback on how it can be improved—please email us at OCCHE@hhs.gov to let us know what you think. Visit the Climate and Health Outlook Portal; […]