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Our work brings together partners in research, policy and practice, and community engagement to reduce the impacts from climate change.We work with policymakers in local, state, national, and international agencies and practitioners from community and environmental organizations and businesses such as insurance, engineering, and climate finance. Social justice is central to our work at UC Santa Cruz. We recognize that the impacts of climate change most affect communities that have contributed the least to the problem and work to resolve this inequity.

The University of California Center for Climate, Health and Equity seeks to drive climate action that safeguards health through research, education and health system sustainability:We will establish a transformational research program to generate a solution-focused body of evidence on climate-health pathways and interventions and encourage multidisciplinary and cross-campus collaborationsWe are building a world-class education hub on climate and health for all health professionals, including community stakeholders.We will help make UC health systems responsive to the climate-sensitive needs of patients and communities.Finally, we aim to make our climate work actionable by translating evidence and best practices into effective policy and patient care.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is one of the most important centers for global earth science research and education in the world. Scripps scientists work to understand and protect the planet by investigating our oceans, Earth, and atmosphere to find solutions to our greatest environmental challenges. Scripps leads research in climate change impacts and adaptation, resilience to hazards, conservation and biodiversity, oceans and human health, national security, and innovative technology to observe the planet.Research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography is organized into three administrative sections: Biology, Earth, and Oceans & Atmosphere. Each of these sections is composed of smaller disciplinary and multidisciplinary research units.

The Center for Public Health and Disasters promotes efforts to improve community resilience and to reduce the health impacts of disasters and global climate change. Established in 1997, the center is based in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

The Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences is structured to be the umbrella organization of research centers in the University of California, Los Angeles to address domain-specific research and development needs.

The UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions (C-Solutions) focuses on protecting people and communities from the effects of climate change. The center equips decision makers with solutions that will reduce inequities and benefit their economy, environment, and health. Alongside their partners, the center uses evidence-based best practices that improve health and resilience, now and for generations to come.

The Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3) is a multidisciplinary and multi-university research center with the goal of reducing the risk of natural hazards from becoming natural disasters. Research at NHR3 focuses on improving resiliency of communities and reduction of risks to infrastructures against natural hazards.

The Center for Geotechnical Modeling (CGM) at UC Davis provides users access to world-class geotechnical modeling facilities, including 9-m and 1-m radius centrifuges with shaking tables, to enable major advances in the ability to predict and improve the performance of soil and soil-structure systems affected by earthquake, wave, wind and storm surge loadings.