HS415-6: Determine emerging environmental health problems and future challenges inprotecting human health.
Instructions
Your supervisor has asked you to prepare a grant proposal to secure funding for future
climate change related emerging environmental health issues in your community. The first
step is to persuade the Board of Directors that funding is needed and your time will be well
spent on writing the grant.
Review the Executive Summary of The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the
United States: A Scientific Assessment and choose one of the topics in the assessment.
Source: USGCRP, 2016: The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United
States: A Scientific Assessment. Crimmins, A., J. Balbus, J.L. Gamble, C.B. Beard, J.E.
Bell, D. Dodgen, R.J. Eisen, N. Fann, M.D. Hawkins, S.C. Herring, L. Jantarasami, D.M.
Mills, S. Saha, M.C. Sarofim, J. Trtanj, and L. Ziska, Eds. U.S. Global Change Research
Program, Washington, DC, 312 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.7930/J0R49NQX
Once you have chosen a topic, write a 500-word persuasive essay that includes:
1. A detailed discussion of the emerging environmental health issue created by climate
change.
2. How federal, state and local government and non-government organizations can
effectively address the issue.
3. The measures that need to be taken to prevent harm from these environmental
hazards in the future.
Be sure that you are informing and then persuading the Board of Directors that this is an
important issue and it is best to secure funding now, before a health hazard arises and
there is an immediate need for funds.
You may also want to review Writing a Persuasive Essay from the Writing Center located in
the Academic Success Center.
References
Your paper needs to include at least three (3) references
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