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.

The Glendale Forest near South Park is an example of the types of urban places becoming more important as climate warming continues. A study from the UW is referenced, and Dr. Jeremy Hess, professor of global health, of emergency medicine and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

Increasingly intensive and frequent wildfires in the western U.S. are deteriorating air quality and causing more premature deaths, a new study found.

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

Dr. Jeremy Hess, professor of global health, of emergency medicine and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, says the federal government needs to dramatically increase money to fund research on how climate change impacts health.