Climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have found there’s a more than 99% chance that 2023 will have the hottest recorded global average temperature, beating out 2016, the previous leader.

Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

The year 2022 set a grim record — 1,989 attacks on health-care facilities and their personnel, the worst total number in the decade since the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition began its sobering count. This year is on track to be even more devastating for the toll on health care. In many of the world’s ongoing conflicts — such as Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and now between Israel and Hamas — health care has been a target.

Amy Hagopian, professor emeritus of global health at the UW, is quoted.

The health inequalities between different ethnicities, neighborhoods and social classes are already stark, with millions of women in the most deprived areas in England dying almost eight years earlier than those from wealthier areas.

Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

Health Day at COP28 included dozens of health-focused events that took place in an official health pavilion, as well as in other pavilions and tents across the conference.

Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.