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A June 17 article in Colorado Politics covered findings from CHI’s 2022 Health and Climate Index, showing that residents of counties in Southeastern Colorado, Adams County, and some western and northeastern counties are at a high risk for health impacts from climate change. Many of those counties are also the least prepared to deal with the health effects of climate change.

CHI's new Health and Climate Index, part of Acclimate Colorado, provides data, maps, and analysis about climate change's impacts on Colorado's counties.

The Board of Trustees of the Colorado Health Institute (CHI) announced today that President and CEO Michele Lueck will leave the organization on July 15. Managing Director of Research, Evaluation, and Consulting Sara Schmitt will lead CHI on an interim basis while a search for a permanent replacement conducted.

How Colorado’s Changing Climate Is Putting Children’s Health at Risk reports on how exposure to air pollution can lead to health problems, including diminished lung development and asthma, and why pollution is often worse in lower-income neighborhoods.

The Valley Courier reported on CHI’s community health needs assessment with SLV Health.

CHI's goal is to drive policy changes that will help Colorado communities become more resilient to climate change, and to improve health equity for the people most profoundly, and unfairly, affected.

CHI found that LGBTQ+ Coloradans were much more likely to report poor mental health than Coloradans who are heterosexual or cisgender.

The Colorado Health Institute (CHI) has reports and data illuminating the COVID-19 pandemic's impact in Colorado as the state marks two years since the onset of the pandemic.