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Quarterly Topic
Quarterly Article
February 2024 Paul Kershaw, Verena Rossa-Roccor,
Faced with urgent threats to human health and well-being such as climate change, calls among the academic community are getting louder to contribute… More
January 2024 Caleb Dresser, Zachary Johns, Avery Palardy, Sarah McKinnon, Suellen Breakey, Ana M. Viamonte Ros, Patrice K. Nicholas,
An exploration of opportunities to move the US health care system toward climate readiness through institutional motivators, efforts to address barriers to action, and broad-based engagement of the health care workforce. More
Quarterly Opinion
January 2024 David N. Pellow,
Research on the linkages among climate change, public health, and mental health is still in its early stages, with scholars just beginning to explore… More
April 2023 Amruta Nori-Sarma, Gregory Wellenius,
Solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change can have important health cobenefits. A vital component of these policy solutions is that they must also take into consideration historic issues of environmental justice and racism, and implementation of these policies must have a strong equity lens. More
August 2022 David Rosner,
We have become so acclimated to bad news that when the Senate recently passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) with its huge health and climate provisions many were skeptical. More
