Dr. Sherilee Harper led a team that included multiple IHACC investigators to develop a report titled, Taking action against climate change will benefit health and advance health equity in the Americas, which was published by the InterAmerican Network of Academies of Sciences (IANAS). This report focuses on how adaptation and mitigation strategies can reduce the negative health consequences of climate change, and considers the ways in which we can diminish the contribution of health systems to climate change. Equity is a central theme of the report, which highlights how negative health outcomes associated with climate change are unevenly distributed, and emphasizes how future action must consider the needs of the most vulnerable.
Access the report here.
Figure 1 from Harper et al. (2022) provides a summary of key health impacts related to climate change hazards in the Americas.
CITATION
IANAS (2022). Taking action against climate change will benefit health and advance health equity in the Americas. (S.L. Harper & J.N McNeil, Eds.) Inter-American Network of Academies of Sciences (IANAS) and InterAcademy Partnership (IAP).