1 Departments of Emergency Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and Global Health, and Center for Health and the Global Environment, Schools of Medicine and Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA jjhess@uw.edu rachel.lowe@lshtm.ac.uk.
2 Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
3 Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
4 Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), Montevideo, Department of Montevideo, Uruguay.
5 Departments of Global Health and Medicine, Schools of Medicine and Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA.
6 Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health and Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK jjhess@uw.edu rachel.lowe@lshtm.ac.uk.
7 Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain.
Climate change is emerging as an important driver of disease incidence, and a wait and see approach invites unnecessary risk, write Jeremy Hess and colleagues. Governments, funders, researchers, and practitioners must act now