Considerations for improving the relevance, use, and robustness of projections of the health risks of climate change

Science News

Policy makers and practitioners are increasingly seeking to understand the extent of the impacts of climate change on health, the magnitude and pattern of projected risks, and possible effective mitigation and adaptation solutions. This Personal View offers recommendations to increase the policy relevance and usefulness of projections.

Research Spotlight: The Center for Health and the Global Environment

The Daily

The Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) is a team of researchers, teachers, and practitioners that uses their expertise to incorporate climate change resilience into public health. Their research focuses on topics such as heat, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, nutrition, wildfires and air pollution, mental health, injuries, and waterborne diseases.

NYC subways unbearably hot again as outside temps fall

New York Post

As temperatures drop in the Big Apple, a new heat wave has begun — in the subways. As usual during cold weather, overzealous heating in subway stations and train cars saw temperatures rise and riders bundled up in winter clothes sweating their Uggs off. 

Dr. Jeremy Hess, professor of global health, of emergency medicine and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

U.S. research funding on health effects of climate change inadequate

UW Medicine Newsroom

Although changes in the Earth’s climate are already harming the health of millions of people in the United States and abroad, the federal government is spending little on research on how to address the health effects of climate change, a new study concludes.

Dr. Jeremy Hess, professor of global health, of emergency medicine and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

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