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Clinic in Climate Justice and Public Health

In this course, interdisciplinary student teams carry out applied projects at the intersection of climate justice, law and public policy, and public health. Each team works with a partner organization — a state agency, community organization, or other NGO — to study, design, and implement a project, typically through community-based participatory research.

The course offers a chance to have real-world impact by applying classroom concepts and competencies. It is open to graduate and professional students across the University, as well as Yale College juniors and seniors, and can fulfill the practice requirement for the YSPH M.P.H. or the capstone requirement for the YSE M.E.M. degree.

Faculty: Daniel Carrión, PhD

Prerequisite: EHS 547 or permission of the instructor

To apply / learn more: Check the course Canvas site or contact daniel.carrion@yale.edu

The clinic is supported through a grant from the SNF Fund for the Integration of Theory and Practice.

  • 5+

    Community-partnered projects

  • 14

    Clinic publications

  • SNF Fund

    Supporting theory-to-practice

Past Projects

  • Achieving Health and Climate Justice through Energy Retrofits in Family Child Care Educator Homes
    • Partner organization: SEIU Local 509
  • Activating Tenants to Advocate for Energy Justice: Barriers and Solutions
    • Partner organization: Neighborhood Housing Services/I Heart New Haven
  • Barriers to engagement in passive surveillance programs in Connecticut
    • Partner organization: Center for Vector Biology & Zoonotic Diseases, Connecticut Agricultural
      Experiment Station
  • Climate Justice for Persons Vulnerable to Heat Stress in Northern Manhattan
    • Partner organization: WE ACT for Environmental Justice
  • Energy Justice and Health in a Changing Climate
    • Partner organization: Operation Fuel, Inc.
  • Health & Environmental Justice in Alabama: Pollution Impacts in Two Low-Income African American Communities
    • Partner organizations: Ashurst Bar/Smith Community Organization, Tuskegee University, Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health & Justice, University of Maryland-College Park, and EJ Clinic at Vermont Law School
  • Heat and Stove Electrification for Energy Burdened New Haven
    Households
    • Partner organization: City of New Haven Office of Climate and Sustainability
  • Housing Violations, Evictions, Environmental Conditions, and Public Health in New York
    City
    • Partner organization: Right to Counsel NYC Coalition
  • Managing Non-Communicable Diseases after Natural Disasters in the Caribbean
    • Partner organization: Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Organization
  • Outreach for Climate Justice and Public Health: a Pilot for the Street Vendor Electrification Project
    • Partner organization: New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice
  • Using Local Laws to Protect Communities from Cumulative Impacts
    • Partner organizations: Public Interest Law Firm