Yale Center on Climate Change and Health

Some good news in climate change and health to get you through the rest of the week 🌱 Yale School of Public Health

🌍📢 This December, we are spotlighting the intersection of Climate Change and Infectious Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health! Stay tuned for faculty and student spotlights featuring innovative research and contributions! 🌱🦠 #ClimateChange #InfectiousDiseases #PublicHealth #YaleEMD  1️⃣ Vector-Borne Diseases & Climate Change Climate change is reshaping the spread of vector-borne diseases. Faculty and students are using *computational approaches* to better understand and forecast how climate drivers shape transmission dynamics. 🦟🌡  2️⃣ Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) & Climate Dynamics We are also featuring a *leishmaniasis and climate modeling study* in partnership with the Humanitarian Research Lab. 🏜📊  3️⃣ Disease Ecology & Biodiversity We will also be featuring researchers exploring the intricate connections between biodiversity, disease ecology, and human health—key to understanding emerging infections. 🌎🦒  4️⃣ Innovative Methods: Forecasting & Policy Integration From *quantitative modeling* to *policy-oriented research*, our faculty and students are working to better understand disease dynamics, while influencing policies that promote climate resilience and health equity. 📈📜  💡 Spotlight on Faculty, MPH & PhD Students Throughout the month, we’ll feature the groundbreaking work of faculty and the diverse research of MPH and PhD students. Stay tuned for inspiring stories of those driving impactful change at the nexus of climate and infectious diseases. 🎓💪  Together, we are building resilient public health systems to address the global challenges of today and tomorrow. 🌡🌍  #ClimateChange #VectorBorneDiseases #NTDs #DiseaseEcology #QuantitativeModeling #GlobalHealth #PublicHealthPolicy #OneHealth #Yale

That’s the wrap for the CHENlab presentations at American Geophysical Union 2024 meeting! Looking forward to the next meeting in New Orleans! #AGU24 AGU GeoHealth Yale Center on Climate Change and Health

Congratulations to Prof. Zeyan Liew, who was recently appointed as a standing member of the NIH’s Social and Environmental Determinants of Health study section for 2024-2028. The Social and Environmental Determinants of Health study section reviews applications that examine social and environmental determinants of health and how they manifest in biological and biobehavioral health outcomes using population-level data. The appointment is a testament to Zeyan’s scholarship and expertise.

We would like to thank our outgoing President Susan Anenberg for her amazing leadership and incredible dedication and contributions to our AGU GeoHealth section! And we are excited to have our incoming President Daniel Tong and President-Elect Kai Chen! Thank you all for the #GeoHealth section members and AGU GeoHealth journal authors! #GeoHealth gathering and section event at #AGU24

Multiple congratulations to Prof. Paul Anastas, whose paper, “Toward Property-Based Regulation of Chemicals” (https://lnkd.in/ewxq2RJ7), was selected as a recipient of the 2023 Environmental Science & Technology Best Paper Award. This week, Anastas is traveling to Australia to deliver Commencement addresses and to receive honorary doctorate degrees from Griffith University in Brisbane and Monash University in Melbourne. Cue Pomp & Circumstance!

The challenges we face, here in the US and globally, from a warming planet are not political but existential. As one of the worlds biggest polluters the US has a fundamental responsibility to act, and must: 1. Make health a core issues when considering the effects of climate change. No longer can it be siloed or sidelined. To help better explain and address the threat we face policy makers must recognise that the health burdens caused by climate change will undermine our economies, social stability, and global security. 2. Create accountability and transparency by integrating health metrics into climate and green policies. Accountability can be further increased by the US galvanising the public and private sectors into doing the same and incorporating health metrics into their climate programs to ensure accountability. 3. Direct efforts towards adaptation and resilience of health care. By focusing attention, innovation and financing here policy makers can mitigate the harm of existing climate change and strengthen the public health systems for the future. The US, global leaders, policy makers, the health community, scientists, clinicians, and academics all have a role to make this a reality and ensure we move to human-centred climate action. You can read our full comment piece in The Lancet - “Addressing the unmet need: US leadership on climate and health” -https://lnkd.in/eVipWDtd. It was a pleasure to write it with Andrea Baccarelli, Dean of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Megan Ranney, Dean of Yale School of Public Health for The Lancet special issue.

Great job again by Eli Schulman in helping us share some considerations for health services researchers in assessing the impacts of climate change on health outcomes. Thank you to Kai Chen for providing your environmental expertise! https://lnkd.in/g8PXJZxH Yale Center on Climate Change and Health

The Spotify Wrapped you didn’t know you needed is here... Look back on 2024 through a climate health lens! 🎧🍃 Yale School of Public Health