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

What

Leaders from the National Institutes of Health talk about the company’s plan to deal with 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 develop into extra excessive, the danger to human well being grows, exacerbating current well being threats and creating new public well being challenges world wide.

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

Article

The NIH Climate Change and Health 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 following NIH leaders can be found for interviews:

• Richard P. Woychik, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. He is the lead creator on The Lancet commentary, and the chair of the Executive Committee main the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative.
• 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.