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.
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the U.S. Southwest has been weathering the nation’s first multidecadal megadrought—the most severe of many such droughts over the past 1,200 years. Across the United States, droughts are becoming more frequent and longer-lasting, contributing to water supply challenges, groundwater declines, increased wildfire risk, and a growing occurrence of rapidly intensifying flash droughts. Together, these changing conditions are challenging the nation’s ability to prepare for and respond to future drought risk.
Conducted at the request of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with support from the Interstate Council on Water Policy, this report examines how climate variability and change, along with evolving water and land management practices, are altering drought characteristics and contributing to nonstationarity. The report proposes a framework for incorporating nonstationarity into drought assessment, addressing both short-term operational needs, such as drought monitoring and early warning, and long-term planning for water management, infrastructure, and adaptation. It also identifies opportunities to strengthen drought indicators, impact data, and scientific understanding to support more effective drought assessment across the United States.
In June 2026, 111 participants from around the world gathered at the University of Oslo for the first-ever DHIS2 Climate & Health Academy—training for “District Health Information Software 2,” which is a free, open-source software platform used for collecting, managing, analyzing, and visualizing data.
This four-day event included presentations from the DHIS2 team on the latest tools for climate data integration and predictive modeling, presentations from local teams on how DHIS2 is being used in low- and middle-income countries to help analyze and address climate-sensitive disease risks, and hands-on technical sessions to build national capacity.
All sessions were recorded and are available on the DHIS2 YouTube channel in English and French.
The National Weather Service (NWS) recently teamed up with Cumbre Kids podcast to produce two special episodes about hurricanes. They feature NOAA/NWS meteorologist, Steve LaVoie, who breaks down hurricanes into fun, accessible science for both elementary and middle schoolers. These episodes are especially important for kids living near coastal cities impacted by hurricanes.
- Spotify: https://bit.ly/4dMsjyb
- Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4uYkb3F
- YouTube: https://bit.ly/4uQNKUT
Middle School episode
· YouTube: https://bit.ly/3SjK13
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.
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.
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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)
