What
Leaders from the National Institutes of Health discuss the agency’s plan to handle the chance to human health posed by a changing climate in a commentary published in The Lancet. As floods, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, and warmth waves turn out to be more extreme, the chance to human health grows, exacerbating existing health threats and creating latest public health challenges world wide.
The authors, a coalition of leaders at NIH, outline how the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative is uniquely poised to steer and have interaction with communities and agencies globally to handle the health effects related to climate change.
Article
The NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative and Strategic Framework: addressing the specter of climate change to health. The Lancet, November 2022. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)02163-8/fulltext
Who
The next NIH leaders can be found for interviews:
- Richard P. Woychik, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. He’s the lead writer on The Lancet commentary, and the chair of the Executive Committee leading the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative.
- Gary H. Gibbons, M.D., director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- Roger I. Glass, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Fogarty International Center.
- Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Mental Health
- Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., director of the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities.
Source:
National Institutes of Health
Journal reference:
Woychik, R.P., et al. (2022) The NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative and Strategic Framework: addressing the specter of climate change to health. The Lancet. doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02163-8.