The Heat Policy Innovation Hub at Duke University convened more than 100 researchers, policymakers and corporate and community leaders in June to identify ways to make communities more heat resilient. A new Nicholas Institute report captures insights shared during conversations around three core themes at the inaugural HeatWise Policy Partnership Summit

Speaking to WUNC for its Scorched Workers series, Jordan Clark, senior policy associate at the Duke Heat Policy Innovation Hub, pointed to local research that will help groups in North Carolina provide appropriate resources to outdoor workers and other communities vulnerable to extreme heat. But first, Clark said it's vital for people to take heat seriously. "It's an invisible threat you can't see," he said.

The 2024 Duke Alumni Engagement and Development Impact Report highlights the launch of "Cooling Communities: Strategic Partnerships for Energy Equity in the Carolinas." This new project is led by experts at the Nicholas Institute and Duke Divinity School, and nonprofit groups N.C. Interfaith Power & Light, N.C. Council of Churches, and S.C. Interfaith Power & Light, alongside collaborators at Duke Energy.

Increasing summer temperatures in North Carolina and around the world are a slow-moving disaster that may go unheeded until they culminate in a heat crisis. "You can't look out your window and say it's an extreme heat day like you can with a hurricane, tornado or bad storm," Jordan Clark, senior policy associate at Duke's Heat Policy Innovation Hub, told the Wilmington StarNews. "It's very subtle and somewhat invisible, but incredibly impactful."

The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) on Wednesday released the first-ever National Heat Strategy to promote proactive coordination between federal agencies on heat planning, response and resilience. Duke University experts Ashley Ward and Jordan Clark provided comments for the media.

Practices for high school football, marching band and other activities started across the United States in August—one of the hottest times of the year. In this video, Jordan Clark, senior policy associate at Duke's Heat Policy Innovation Hub, offers tips to help students acclimate to the heat and keep them safe when the temperature gets too high.

“We’re quickly approaching the limits to what the human body can withstand.” – Jordan Clark, a senior policy associate at Duke ’s Heat Policy Innovation Hub, on a report in Nature Medicine that more than 47,000 Europeans died from heat-related causes during 2023, and that without heat adaptation measures taken over the last 20 years, the toll would have been much higher.

As the world gets hotter, so do the job sites people are working on. Jordan Clark, senior policy associate at Duke's Heat Policy Innovation Hub, talked with OHS Canada about what constitutes an extreme heat event, how to identify signs of heat-related illness and how workers can cope when the temperature is high.

"We're racing against the clock" as global temperatures continue to rise, says Duke University expert Jordan Clark. Clark and Ashley Ward, researchers at Duke's Heat Policy Innovation Hub, talked with The New York Times about a new report in Nature Medicine showing that behavioral and social changes in Europe have reduced heat mortality.

Top athletes at the Paris Olympics are facing their most capable competitors on a global stage, but they are confronting an invisible challenger, too—extreme heat. Jordan Clark, senior policy associate at Duke’s Heat Policy Innovation Hub, writes for the U.N. Climate Champions about heat's health impacts on the athletes—as well as spectators, event staff, volunteers and security personnel—and strategies to keep them safe.