This special issue brings climate change into the foreground of dermatology, with the proposition that it is essential to learn about, discuss, and incorporate what we know into practices and the care of patients with skin disease.
Members in Action
The Journal of Climate Change and Health
This exciting new journal seeks to publish articles related to best practices and solutions for climate change and health, emphasizing issues related to environmental justice and how they coincide to health.
Health Affairs Journal devotes December Issue to Health and Climate
The nation’s premier health policy journal, Health Affairs, devotes its entire December issue to the topic of health and the climate, and offers a solutions-focused approach to managing the climate crisis.
A Call for the United States to Rejoin the Paris Agreement
2021 must be the year that the United States recommits to an opportunity that carries the potential to head off the world’s accelerating climate calamity.
Needless Waste and the Sustainability of Cataract Surgery
Dr. David Chang writes on how the excessive economic and environmental costs of surgical waste will not be sustainable as global cataract surgery continues to increase.
Fiction as a tool for climate activism
Guest post by Dr. Sam Stea: The climate crisis is being fought in our clinics and hospitals, and we physicians will be accountable. I choose to be accountable now.
UK Plan for Electric Transportation
The world’s climate, and the United Kingdom’s health and economy, will be better off because of their plan to require all new cars and trucks be electric-powered from 2030.
Climate change is a health emergency… put on your white coat cape
Dr. Millstein knows climate change is a health emergency, especially for our children, and she has hope health professionals can take action!
Michigan clinicians rally to address climate change as a public health issue
Members of Michigan Clinicians for Climate Action and Michigan State Medical Society are taking note of climate change impacts on their patients’ health, and taking action!