Vector-Borne Disease
Climate and Human Health Responders: Vector-borne Disease These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by Angelle Desiree LaBeaud, MD, MS, Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University Impact of Climate Change on Environmental Processes Climate change is shifting all natural systems. The range, life cycle, growing pattern, and disease dynamics of many living organisms are affected […]
Water- and Food-Related Illness
Climate Change: Impacts on the Hydrologic Cycle and Waterborne Disease These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by George Luber, PhD, of Emory University. Source: National Climatic Data Center, NOAA. Global Ocean Heat Content, 1955–2010. Source: NOAA/NESDIS/NODC Ocean Climate Laboratory, updated from Levitus, S., et al., “World ocean heat content and thermostericsea level change […]
Planetary Health
Planetary Health recognizes that “human health and the health of the planet are inextricably linked.”1 It is a concept that focuses our understanding on the interdependence of human health, animal health, and the health of the environment.2 Awareness of how the escalation of human pressure on the global environment led to impairment in ecosystems, creating […]