A newly-launched federal office faces a variety of challenges if it is to succeed in its goal of connecting the dots on health in interagency climate work, health and climate experts said.
With an eight-person crew and limited budget, the Health and Human Services Department’s new Office of Climate Change and Health Equity—which opened its doors on Sept. 6— will need to keep focus within a range of competing agency interests, including its own health agency of over 80,000 employees.
“Their budget must be orders of magnitude larger to appropriately meet the scale of this crisis and optimally ...