The Wisconsin Heat Health Network (HHN) is a collaborative space for those working to keep Wisconsinites safe from heat. The HHN provides resources, ideas, collaboration, and expert presentations on all things heat and health.
Our goals are:
- Create a forum for discussing extreme heat across partners in Wisconsin.
- Facilitate conversation to connect needs to resources.
- Promote a “whole community” coordinated approach for extreme heat events: preparedness, awareness, response, and mitigation.
- Share tools and resources during heat events.
- Share tools and resources for heat mitigation or build heat resilience into sustainability.
The Heat Health Network recognizes it will take all of us, working together, to keep Wisconsinites safe from heat. The HHN includes:
The network generally meets every other month between February and October on the second Thursday of the month at 11 a.m.
Want to join the network? Contact Kate Beardmore at Katharine.Beardmore@wi.gov or Caitlin Warlick-Short at warlickshort@wisc.edu.
Planning Members
- Johnny Uelmen, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
- Jessica LeClair, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing
- Natalie Meier, Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Management
- Colton Ritchie, City of Madison
- Jennifer Behnke, City of Madison Emergency Management
- Megan McBride, UniverCity Alliance
- Sheena Cook-Fuglsang, Division of Extension Health and Wellbeing
- Caitlin Warlick-Short, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
- Nathan Brown, UW-Stevens Point
- Kate Beardmore, Wisconsin Division of Public Health Climate and Health Program
- Jayne Black, Moms Clean Air Force
- Jonathan Patz, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment