Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act of 2025

Contribute to assessments of how climate change is affecting the health of individuals living in the United States.

Understand the needs of the populations most disproportionately affected by climate-related health threats, including environmental justice communities and medically underserved communities.

Serve as a credible source of information on the physical, mental, and behavioral health consequences of climate change.

Track data on environmental conditions, disease risks, and disease occurrence related to climate change.

Expand capacity for modeling and forecasting health effects that may be climate-related.

Enhance the science base to better understand the relationship between climate change and health outcomes.

Communicate the health-related aspects of climate change, including risks and associated costs and ways to reduce them, to the public, decision-makers, public health professionals, and health care providers.

Align Federal efforts to deploy climate-conscious human services and direct services to support and protect populations disproportionately affected by climate change, including environmental justice communities and medically underserved communities.

Develop and distribute tools and resources to support climate resilience for the health sector, community-based organizations, and individuals.

Develop and implement preparedness and response plans for health threats, such as heat waves, severe weather events, and infectious diseases.

Lead efforts to reduce the greenhouse gas and environmental impacts of the health sector, including by developing and distributing tools and resources to support health sector efforts to track and decrease sectoral greenhouse gas emissions.

Provide leadership to State and local governments, community leaders, health care professionals, nongovernmental organizations, environmental justice networks, faith-based communities, the private sector, and the public, regarding health protection from climate change effects.

Develop partnerships with other government agencies, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, and institutions of higher education, to more effectively address the health aspects of climate change.

Promote workforce development by helping to ensure the training of a new generation of competent, experienced public health and health care professionals to respond to the health threats posed by climate change.

Carry out other activities, as the Secretary determines appropriate.

consult with the Director, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Director of the Indian Health Service, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, Tribal governments, and State and local government officials; and

provide meaningful opportunity for engagement, comment, and consultation with relevant public stakeholders, particularly representatives of populations disproportionately affected by climate change, including environmental justice communities, medically underserved communities, Tribal communities, health care providers, public health organizations, and scientists.

identifying, prioritizing, and engaging communities and populations who are disproportionately affected by, or at greatest risk for, exposures to climate hazards;

addressing mental and physical health disparities exacerbated by climate impacts to enhance community health resilience;

identifying the link between environmental injustice and vulnerability to the impacts of climate change and prioritizing those who have been harmed by environmental and climate injustice;

providing outreach and communication aimed at public health and health care professionals and the public to promote preparedness and response strategies;

tracking and assessing programs across Federal agencies to advance research related to the impacts of climate change on health;

identifying and assessing existing preparedness and response strategies for the health impacts of climate change;

prioritizing critical public health and health care infrastructure projects;

providing modeling and forecasting tools of climate change health impacts, including local impacts, where feasible;

establishing academic and regional centers of excellence;

recommending models for maintaining access to health care during extreme weather;

providing technical assistance and support for preparedness and response plans for the health threats of climate change in States, municipalities, territories, Indian Tribes, and developing countries;

addressing the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the health of individuals living in the United States;

tracking health care sector contributions to greenhouse gas emissions and identifying actions to reduce those emissions;

recommending new regulations or policies to address identified gaps in the health system capacity to effectively reduce emissions, reduce environmental impact, and address climate change; and

developing, improving, integrating, and maintaining disease surveillance systems and monitoring capacity to respond to health-related impacts of climate change, including on topics addressing—

are recommended by the President of the National Academy of Sciences or the President of the National Academy of Medicine; and

have expertise in essential public health and health care services, including with respect to diverse populations, climate change, environmental and climate justice, and other relevant disciplines.