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General information
Climate change and human health @ USEPA
Climate effects on health @ USCD
Periodicals
Journal of Climate Change and Health
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
Institutions ~ International organizations & initiatives
World Health Organization (WHO)
Institutions ~ NGOs, alliances & coalitions
· "...a group of physician activists who believe that the climate crisis, like a “Code Blue” in the
medical setting, requires urgent attention."
Global Climate & Health Alliance
Healthy Professionals for a Healthy Climate (HPforHC)
Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP)
Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health
Select readings on global public health & climate change
· In reverse chronological order.
Executive Order on Protecting Public Health & the Climate Crisis
· Full title: Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science
to Tackle the Climate Crisis
· 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden, Executive Order 13990
· Signed by President Joe Biden on his first day in the Oval Office after his inauguration
· Implemented a review or revocation of policy that detrimentally impacts the environment such
as the Keystone XL Pipeline, and policies from the previous Trump administration
· Declared the United States commitment to improving public health by means of further research
that can later provide recommendations for the betterment of the environment and public health
Report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Code red for a healthy future
· 2021, Marina Romanello et al., The Lancet
· Highlights inequities exacerbated by climate change and underscores the fact that marginalized
groups face the greatest burden from a changing climate
· Extensive review of evidence that climate change has negative implications on human health
followed with an outline of the necessary policy responses
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity,
· 2021, Lukoye Atwoli et al., The Lancet
· Draws attention to the irreversible harm to health that will occur if emergency action against
climate change is not taken
· Highlights the lack of substantiable change that has occurred in the realm of reaching net-zero
emissions and proposes actions that could be taken in response
Third National Climate Assessment
· 2014, John Balbus et al., U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
· Extensive assessment detailing a wide array of health impacts caused by climate change with a
particular focus on those most at-risk, preparedness and prevention to prevent human harm, and
the positive health outcomes associated with combating climate change.
· Explores the reasoning behind specific health outcomes correlated with climate-related illness.
· 1989, Anonymous, The Lancet
· One of the first publications in a journal to document the implications of climate change with a
connection to public health
· Examines the direct result of “man's industrial activities” and the subsequent impact inflicted on
human health
· Concludes by stating that the cost of doing nothing as opposed to finding a solution to the climate
issues proposed is immeasurable
Health & climate change
Contents of this page:
~ International organizations & initiatives
~ NGOs
· Select readings on global public health and climate change
Lilah Goldberg of Brandeis & Northwestern Universities contributed to this page in 2022.
