NIH leaders plan to handle the specter of local weather change to human well being

What

Leaders from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being focus on the company’s plan to handle the danger to human well being posed by a altering local weather in a commentary printed in The Lancet. As floods, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, and warmth waves change into extra excessive, the danger to human well being grows, exacerbating present well being threats and creating new public well being challenges world wide.

The authors, a coalition of leaders at NIH, define how the NIH Local weather Change and Well being Initiative is uniquely poised to steer and interact with communities and companies globally to handle the well being results related to local weather change.

Article

The NIH Local weather Change and Well being Initiative and Strategic Framework: addressing the specter of local weather change to well being. 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 Nationwide Institute of Environmental Well being Sciences. He’s the lead writer on The Lancet commentary, and the chair of the Government Committee main the NIH Local weather Change and Well being Initiative.
• Gary H. Gibbons, M.D., director of the Nationwide Coronary heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
• Roger I. Glass, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Fogarty Worldwide Heart.
• Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being
• Eliseo J. Pérez-Steady, M.D., director of the Nationwide Institute of Minority Well being and Well being Disparities.