Advocacy
The goal of our advocacy work is to provide a pathway for New Jersey health care professionals to effectively engage in the push to bring about an equitable transition to clean energy and drive carbon pollution down. We focus our work on ideas designed to bring about change in New Jersey. While we recognizes that there are a vast number of public health challenges in the state - environmental and otherwise - we concentrate our work on topics directly connected to climate change and carbon pollution.
Experts in public health policy focus on the 'social determinants of health.' The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define social determinants as the 'conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play that affect a wide range of health and quality-of life-risks and outcomes.' Our approach to advocacy centers on the idea that climate change is the single most powerful factor poised to undermine all social determinants of health.
2024 Priorities
Beginning in the fall of each year, we participate in a conversation with a broad coalition of groups in New Jersey who are working to advance smart, high impact ideas. The coalition numbers over 50 local organizations whose purview spans the environment, public health, economic justice, business, labor, and much more. The purpose of this dialogue is to determine a set or priorities that the coalition will work on collectively to in pushing for change.
Currently, our advocacy priorities fall under three umbrellas: clean energy generation, transportation, buildings energy. To learn more, click on the boxes below.
