Finding the information you need about climate change and health can be daunting – there’s just so much of it available. On this Resources page, we have tried to collect, curate, and categorize resources that cover a wide array of topics related to climate change and health. We have prioritized resources that are not in the peer-reviewed literature, but that offer credible information. Only relatively recent resources are included (post-2010), except for those that offer an excellent review of an issue, or are in some way seminal.
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Aaron Bernstein on Biological Diversity and Medicine abstract
Plants, animals, and microbes have led to the development of treatments for many diseases including cancer, glaucoma, malaria, inflammatory disorders, high blood pressure, and many other disorders. The staggering loss of biodiversity today affects the ability of researchers to tap natural sources for medicine and exposes people to new risks from diseases like West Nile Virus and Lyme disease. Climate change, one of the drivers of biodiversity loss, also impacts children’s health. Aaron Bernstein, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, Physician in Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School speaks with Link TV correspondent Miles Benson on the connections between biological diversity, medicine, and health.
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An Eye Toward Public Health Adaptation Strategy abstract
The 5th in CDC’s webinar series, focused on considerations for public health departments when it comes to adaptation. Includes a presentation from Kristie Ebi (from working group II of the UGPCC) and Kim Knowlton from NRDC.
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Beating the Heat Preparing for Extreme Heat Events at the State and Local Level Webinar abstract
Webinar going over CDC materials and toolkit, examples of heat wave preparation in Massachussets and New York.
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Big Question: Feast or famine? abstract
The University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment is discovering solutions to Earth’s biggest problems, including the big question of how are we going to feed a growing world without destroying the planet?
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Big Question: Is Earth past the tipping point? abstract
For 10,000 years, our world seemed endless. The sky was the limit. But today’s world looks much smaller. We’ve cleared, consumed and polluted our way across the globe. The planet is shrinking. Have we pushed Earth past the tipping point? That’s a critical issue the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment explores in our second Big Question video. This three-minute multimedia feature draws on research from the article Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Operating Space for Humanity, published this past fall in the journal Nature, and discussed in the current Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/art…
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Building Community Preparedness to Extreme Heat abstract
On May 26, 2016 the National Security Council and the Office of Science and Technology Policy held a webinar focused on building community preparedness to extreme heat as part of FEMA’s PrepareAthon Extreme Heat Week. The webinar was planned as part of an interagency collaboration (including NOAA, CDC, FEMA, DOD, OSHA, SAMHSA, ASPR, NIH, EPA and others) to address the Grand Challenge of Disaster Reduction for heat waves as part of the Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction of the National Science and Technology Council.
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Building Resilience Against Climate Change: Climate-Ready States Webinar abstract
In this second webinar, we will hear from two states, Minnesota and Oregon who are putting BRACE’s framework in action. Speakers will speak more about the BRAC framework, answer questions.
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CDC Grand Rounds: Climate Change and Health – From Science to Practice abstract
Changes occurring in the world’s climate pose significant threats to human health and wellbeing and will have even greater impacts in the future. These threats are wide-ranging, including decreased air quality and increases in extreme weather events, wildfire, and illnesses transmitted by water, and disease-carriers, such as mosquitoes and ticks.Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/…This video can also be viewed at http://www.cdc.gov/cdcgrandrounds/vid…
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Climate and Health Adaptation Project: Antioch Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience abstract
Summary and information about CDC BRACE project in the Monadnock Region of NH focused on the development of a Climate and Health Adaptation Plan.
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Climate Change as a Public Health Issue abstract
Last month, anthrax made an appearance in northern Russia when a 75-year-old caribou carcass that was infected with the bacteria thawed and came into contact with locals. We talk to a guest who says that climate change could be to blame for the spread of illness and might be at the root…