About CACHE
Our Vision
Carolina Advocates for Climate, Health, and Equity (CACHE) envisions a future where all North Carolinians, especially those most at risk to environmental threats, can achieve health and wellbeing in the face of a changing climate.
Our Mission
We inspire and activate our network of health professionals and advocates to strengthen community resilience and reduce the health impacts of climate change across North Carolina. We engage our network in climate-informed education, advocacy, and research with community based organizations, health systems, and policy makers. We share resources and co-create pathways to a healthier, more equitable future for all.
Our People
Our network consists of health professionals and advocates across North Carolina who are increasingly concerned about the impacts of climate change on health and health equity, and are committed to integrating this information into their work, clinical practice, and advocacy efforts.
Our Purpose & Approach
Climate Change is a Health Equity Crisis
Climate change is already harming our health and health care delivery in North Carolina. Low-wealth communities and communities of color have been put at greater risk of harm from extreme heat, poor air quality, severe hurricanes, and other climate-related disasters. We believe everyone deserves a healthy, resilient future.
As public health practitioners, physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals from across North Carolina, we have an obligation to protect the health of current and future generations. We have a responsibility to minimize our health systems’ contribution to climate change. And we have an opportunity to re-imagine a healthcare system that bolsters communities against the impacts of climate change.
Our Network of Health Professionals is Making a Difference
CACHE connects and supports North Carolina health professionals to lead on climate solutions.
Through education, advocacy, community engagement, and climate-smart healthcare initiatives, we are taking action to ensure robust health systems and thriving communities in a changing climate.
Our Prescription for Healthy Communities Starts Here
The good news is that climate solutions exist! Join our growing network and be part of the solution. From physicians, nurses, trainees, OTs, mental health providers, retirees, allies and more, we share a commitment to protecting the health of current and future generations.
Whether you have five minutes or five hours to contribute, our network makes it easy to take action and drive meaningful change.
We are the North Carolina chapter of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health.
Climate change is “the greatest global health threat facing the world in the 21st century…also the greatest opportunity to redefine the social and environmental determinants of health”.
- The Lancet Countdown