Educational Resource Hub
This crowd-sourced database of educational resources is meant to encompass any tools relevant to people working at the intersection of health and extreme weather. This might include submissions by the content authors themselves, or simply recommendations from community members for resources they have found helpful. This collection includes only links directing users to existing resources - it is not meant to house or archive content.
Keep in mind, this is a crowd-sourced database. CAFE does not verify the quality nor endorse the use of any materials included in this database. Make sure to follow the terms of use and attribution requirements specific to each resource. If you have created or used sources that would be relevant to the community of practice, please add it to the database by entering it in the submission form below.
This May 15 webinar from the NIH Extreme Weather and Health Program examines challenges in identifying best practices for quantifying weather exposures in health research, using case studies of flooding and extreme heat to highlight key methodological issues and public health implications.
In an effort to understand the short- and long-term health impacts of the Los Angeles-area wildfires in early January 2025, researchers from nine universities launched a 10-year study of the LA fires. View all recent publications here
Learn more about the HE2AT Centre and how they are developing data science solutions to mitigate the health impacts of heat in Africa. The Centre focuses on pregnant women and infants, exposure among people living in informal housing or with limited green space, and using data to new opportunities for care services - reanalysis of data can inform solutions around early warnings, cooling services, and public health responses to limit harms of extreme heat.
The May 2026 issue of Health Affairs features articles on integrating adaptation into health insurance coverage, the impacts of extreme heat and cold on health care use and costs, strategies to build resilient health systems and communities, and interventions that address mental health, food systems, environmental hazards, and the experiences of health care workers on the front lines of extreme weather events.
This guidance provides a multi-agency, multi-sector framework for flood preparedness and response, supporting actors to assess risk, identify and protect vulnerable groups, integrate adaptations across programming, and link preparedness to early-warning and anticipatory-action systems to strengthen coordinated flood readiness.
This guidance provides a multi-agency, multi-sector framework for heat preparedness and response, supporting actors to assess risk, identify and protect vulnerable groups, integrate adaptations across programming, and link preparedness to early-warning and anticipatory-action systems to strengthen coordinated heat readiness.
Somalia’s Heat and Health Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment 2025, supported by International Medical Corps, provides the nation's first comprehensive analysis of extreme heat on health. It highlights and outlines actions to address the impacts, vulnerabilities and major gaps in readiness to near universal extreme heat exposure.
Major disasters can be catalysts for change, prompting shifts in our worldviews and inspiring innovations in research, policy, and practice. The Natural Hazards Center’s Disasters as Turning Points webinar series explores events that have altered the trajectory of the hazards and disaster field through conversations with the people who studied or responded to them.
Crowd-Sourced Environment and Health Educational Resources Collection Submission Form
Do you have a resource you’d like to share with the community in this educational resource collection? Please fill out the submission form below.
Your entry will be checked to ensure the content is appropriate, but will not be assessed for accuracy or completeness, and no other quality checks will be done.
If you have a dataset you’d like to share with the community, think about posting it to the CAFE collection on Dataverse!
Please fill out the form to add a resource you think might be helpful for the research community of practice.
The type of resources that should be shared here are one of the following:
- Book or reference text (e.g. textbook or guidebook on best practices or other essential knowledge)
- Code repository (e.g. a GitHub code bank of an existing analysis)
- Online code tutorial or vignette (e.g. a walkthrough of specific code or methods with examples and explanations)
- Online course (e.g. a series of learning objectives with content and assessment)
- Video or recorded webinar (e.g. educational resources presented in video format)
