Media Availability: NIH’s Climate and Health Initiative tackles global health effects associated with a changing climate
Agency leaders discuss new research plan in The Lancet.
What
Leaders from the National Institutes of Health discuss the agency's plan to address the risk to human health posed by a changing climate in a commentary published in
The Lancet. As floods, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, and heat waves become more extreme, the risk to human health grows, exacerbating existing health threats and creating new public health challenges around the world.
The authors, a coalition of leaders at NIH, outline how the
NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative is uniquely poised to lead and engage with communities and agencies globally to address the health effects associated with climate change.
Article
The NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative and Strategic Framework: addressing the threat of climate change to health.
The Lancet, November 2022.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)02163-8/fulltext
Who
The following NIH leaders are available for interviews:
- Richard P. Woychik, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. He is the lead author on The Lancet commentary, and the chair of the Executive Committee leading the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative.
- Diana W. Bianchi, M.D., director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
- 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.
- Shannon N. Zenk, Ph.D., MPN, RN, FAAN, director of the National Institute of Nursing Research.
Contact
Robin Mackar
Email: Robin.Mackar@nih.gov
Tel: 1-984-287-3355 or 1-240-858-9581
More Information
Updated: November 7, 2022
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