Measuring National Environmental Health Association Member Attitudes, Awareness, and Behaviors on Climate Change: Results From Three Consecutive Annual Surveys

The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) partners with ecoAmerica's Climate for Health program to build visible national leadership on climate solutions and engage all leadership, members, and stakeholders within the NEHA community. As part of its partnership, ecoAmerica's American Climate Metrics Survey was administered to NEHA members in 2016, 2017, and 2018. This column provides a summary and trend analysis of select survey results, including NEHA member awareness of climate and health issues and relevance for NEHA's climate actions and policies. NEHA and ecoAmerica, as well as other groups, are developing and disseminating climate and health tools and resources for EHPs, including best practices, regional and local climate projections, communication guidance, mental health impacts, and impacts to children's health and other at-risk communities. As EHPs are first and second responders and see the impacts in their communities, it is critical for them to continuously learn and communicate about climate and health issues and impacts and the appropriate mitigation and adaptation initiatives.