Climate change and global health: A call to more research and more action

Ioana Agache; Vanitha Sampath; Juan Aguilera; Cezmi A Akdis; Mubeccel Akdis; Michele Barry; Aude Bouagnon; Sharon Chinthrajah; William Collins; Coby Dulitzki; Barbara Erny; Jason Gomez; Anna Goshua; Marek Jutel; Kenneth W Kizer; Olivia Kline; A Desiree LaBeaud; Isabella Pali-Schöll; Kirsten P Perrett; Rachel L Peters; Maria Pilar Plaza; Mary Prunicki; Todd Sack; Renee N Salas; Sayantani B Sindher; Susanne H Sokolow; Cassandra Thiel; Erika Veidis; Brittany Delmoro Wray; Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann; Christian Witt; Kari C Nadeau

doi:10.1111/all.15229

Climate change and global health: A call to more research and more action

Allergy. 2022 May;77(5):1389-1407. doi: 10.1111/all.15229. Epub 2022 Feb 8.

Authors

Ioana Agache¹, Vanitha Sampath², Juan Aguilera², Cezmi A Akdis³, Mubeccel Akdis³, Michele Barry⁴, Aude Bouagnon⁵, Sharon Chinthrajah^{2

6}, William Collins^{2

7}, Coby Dulitzki², Barbara Erny⁸, Jason Gomez^{9

10}, Anna Goshua⁹, Marek Jutel^{11

12}, Kenneth W Kizer¹³, Olivia Kline², A Desiree LaBeaud¹⁴, Isabella Pali-Schöll^{15

16}, Kirsten P Perrett^{17

18

19}, Rachel L Peters^{17

18}, Maria Pilar Plaza^{20

21}, Mary Prunicki², Todd Sack²², Renee N Salas^{23

24}, Sayantani B Sindher², Susanne H Sokolow^{25

26}, Cassandra Thiel²⁷, Erika Veidis⁴, Brittany Delmoro Wray^{4

25

28}, Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann^{20

21

29}, Christian Witt³⁰, Kari C Nadeau^{2

6}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania.
² Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
³ Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University Zurich, Davos, Switzerland.
⁴ Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁵ Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁶ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁷ Division of Hospital Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Med/Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁹ Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
¹⁰ Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California, USA.
¹¹ Department of Clinical Immunology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
¹² "ALL-MED" Medical Research Institute, Wroclaw, Poland.
¹³ Atlas Research, LLC, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Disease, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
¹⁵ Comparative Medicine, Interuniversity Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine/Medical University/University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹⁶ Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Immunology and Infectiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹⁷ Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
¹⁸ Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
¹⁹ Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
²⁰ Department of Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
²¹ Institute of Environmental Medicine, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Augsburg, Germany.
²² My Green Doctor Foundation, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
²³ Harvard Global Health Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
²⁴ Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
²⁵ Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
²⁶ Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
²⁷ Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY, USA.
²⁸ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London, UK.
²⁹ Christine Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE), Davos, Switzerland.
³⁰ Institute of Physiology, Division of Pneumology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 35073410
DOI: 10.1111/all.15229

Abstract

There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change and increased pollution will have a profound and mostly harmful effect on human health. This review brings together international experts to describe both the direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector-borne disease incidence) health impacts of climate change. These impacts vary depending on vulnerability (i.e., existing diseases) and the international, economic, political, and environmental context. This unique review also expands on these issues to address a third category of potential longer-term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, and environmental justice and education. This scholarly resource explores these issues fully, linking them to global health in urban and rural settings in developed and developing countries. The review finishes with a practical discussion of action that health professionals around the world in our field can yet take.

Keywords: climate change; greenhouse gases; health; pollution.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Climate Change*
Environmental Pollution
Global Health*
Humans

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