Climate change news, resources and funding for global health researchers
Global climate change is one of the most pressing environmental and public health concerns of the 21st century. Major human health impacts of climate change are anticipated to occur due to associated changes in the environment, such as direct effects from heat, sea level rise, changes in precipitation resulting in flooding and drought, more intense hurricanes and storms, degraded air quality, and increased exposure to toxic environmental pollutants including persistent organic pollutants, metals and pesticides. A better understanding of how climate change will directly and indirectly alter human health is critical to reduce or prevent illness and death.
The NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative (NIH CCHI) is an urgent, cross-cutting NIH effort to stimulate research to reduce health threats from climate change across the lifespan and build health resilience in individuals, communities, and nations around the world, especially among those at highest risk. Fogarty is one of the founding NIH institutes and centers (ICs) on the partnership, which is being led by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
Previously, NIH has studied this issue and in 2010 issued a report,
A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change, outlining research needs for eleven categories of consequences of climate change for human health, including asthma and respiratory disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke, foodborne diseases and nutrition, human developmental effects, mental health and stress-related disorders, neurological diseases, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, waterborne diseases, and weather-related morbidity and mortality.
Recent News
- The inaugural Climate and Health Africa Conference 2024, which took place in Zimbabwe in late October, featured two programs supported by Fogarty.
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Empowering Through Climate Education, profile of Fogarty’s Josh Rosenthal
Span, U.S. Embassy New Delhi, August 2024 -
Learning to CARE for public and environmental health
Global Health Matters, May/June 2024 -
Impacts of heat exposure in utero on long-term health and social outcomes: a systematic review, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipient Matthew F. Chersich
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, May 4, 2024 -
Deforestation and Bovine Rabies Outbreaks in Costa Rica, 1985–2020
Emerging Infectious Diseases, May 2024 - Podcast:
Global Climate Change and Cancer Care
National Institute of Environmental Health Science’s Global Environmental Health Chat Podcast, April 15, 2024 -
Climate change and health: boosting resilience via adaptation science, interview with Acting Fogarty Director Peter Kilmarx
Environmental Factor, April 2024
Related Fogarty News and Information
Call for applications: Global Forum for Humanitarian Health Research
Fogarty’s Global Forum for Humanitarian Health Research (GFH2R) is holding an in-person meeting on health research at the nexus of humanitarian crises and climate change in Nairobi, Kenya, in May 2025.
Learn more about GFH2R 2025
Call for applications to attend the in-person meeting (Deadline: October 7, 2024)
Watch recording of launch webinar
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Updated: October 4, 2024