Project Groups
Stanford Climate & Health — Project Group Applications Now Open
Stanford Climate & Health (SCH) is excited to announce that applications and sign-ups are now open for our four main project groups for Winter & Spring 2026! Available SCH Project Groups: CLIME Curriculum, Cool Cities Coalition (CCC), Disaster Preparedness, & Policy! Each project group may have its own application form and specific requirements. You are welcome to apply for multiple project group leadership roles; however, please only accept a role if you are able to fully commit to and fulfill all responsibilities.
[Application Deadline: January 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM]
General Members
Not looking for a specific leadership role? Join as a general member!
General members can:
- Sign up for different projects
- Receive notifications about volunteering opportunities, events, and new initiatives
- Attend general events open to all participants
We welcome participants of all levels of experience—there’s a place for everyone to get involved.
Choose YOUR Project Group
Disaster Preparedness
The SCH Disaster Preparedness Project Group focuses on addressing local disaster challenges by building strong relationships with local communities and organizations. Students in this group will:
- Collaborate with community partners, such as the CRC, to plan and execute disaster preparedness events
- Take initiative to design, organize, and lead their own projects, from concept to completion, including budgeting, logistics, and execution
- Gain hands-on experience in community engagement, project management, and disaster response planning
This group is ideal for students who are passionate about community resilience, emergency preparedness, and hands-on leadership. If you want more information, take a look at our previous work: HPH resilience. Apply to be a Disaster Preparedness Coordinator
Policy Group
The Stanford Climate & Health Policy Group focuses on improving climate and public health outcomes through policy research, advocacy, and legal or regulatory action. This project group focuses on changing rules, laws, and institutional decisions that shape food systems, agriculture, and environmental health.
- 2026 Winter & Spring Project Group: Core Deliverable: Finalized policy memo on food sustainability and agriculture, completed and formally submitted by the end of the academic year.
- Policy Analyst Role: Policy Analysts will work collaboratively to research, draft, and deliver a policy memo addressing a key issue in food sustainability and agriculture. Analysts will engage in policy research, stakeholder outreach, and memo writing, with the goal of producing a professional, actionable policy document by the end of the academic year.
Cool Cities Coalition
In the summer of 2025, the campaign leaders launched the Cool Cities Coalition, an initiative focused on deploying cooling solutions and bringing cities together to build resilience to extreme heat. We are working to build relationships with city leaders and design and implement effective policy. The Cool Cities Coalition is becoming incorporated as a team of Stanford Climate and Health that is open for undergraduates, grad students, and med students to join!
Goals for the coming year:
- Resilience Kits: We are looking to distribute the rest of the “Resilience Kits” to residents who are most vulnerable
- We need members to help us build relationships with community organizations and help us distribute these kits!
- Tree Planting: We want to find funding sources to allow us to plan a tree planting campaign with the local non-profit Canopy in the Spring
- We need members to help us put together a budget, research funding opportunities, and apply for grants
- Data Analysis: We are looking for a member interested in mapping and data analysis to help us expand access, continue analyzing, and increase the relevance and capacity of the Bay Area Heat Mapping Campaign’s data
- Grid Resilience: Extreme heat events increase electricity demand for AC and therefore increase the risk of a power outage. During power outages, people are without access to cooling and more likely to succumb to heat illness. We want to build a team focused on increasing grid resilience through expanding access to rooftop solar panels and battery storage. We want members interested in policy research, analysis, and writing to help us advocate for policies that increase access to solar and batteries.
CLIME Curriculum WG
Climate Learning Initiative in Medical Education Curriculum (CLIME) Working Group led by Sue (sueaedwards5@gmail.com) and Dr. Barb Erny. CLIME’s mission is to infuse climate health topics into medical education to illustrate how climate change and environmental factors impact health. We aim to update the pre-clerkship curricula with meaningful overlap into clerkship and specialty materials.
- Integrate climate health content into pre-clerkship curricula and align with clerkship/specialty materials.
- Develop a scalable toolkit and repository of climate-health curricular materials, case vignettes, and faculty guides.
- Produce at least one complete curriculum-change package per target course and one cross-cutting policy/resource piece.
- Initiate health-policy content integration (POM Q2) and related policy-oriented education.
Interested in joining other working groups of CLIME? Check out the link below.