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Climate Change and Disproportionate Health Burdens

D360

Climate change exacerbates air pollution, worsens forest fires and storms, and expands the ranges of vector-borne diseases. But the health burdens do not fall equally locally or globally. This panel is a follow-up to the successful Medical Center Hour in January 2023, which discussed the health of individuals, communities, and social systems as they relate to the health of our environment. Experts return to consider direct impacts of climate change on public health, and how communities, health care systems, and clinicians can adapt.
 

Photo from a Democracy360 event about climate change and disproportionate health burdens


Hosted and produced by UVA's Environmental Institute, UVA Sustainability, and iTHRIV. Introduction by Karen McGlathery, director of UVA's Environmental Institute.

Speakers

Ebony Hilton

Associate Professor of Critical Care Anesthesiology

University of Virginia

Karen Johnston

Professor of Neurology

University of Virginia

Irène Mathieu

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

University of Virginia

Matthew Meyer

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

University of Virginia

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