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Resources
- Recorded webcast
- AHCJ core topic: Infectious diseases
- Presentation
- Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment
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Liz Purchia, communications director,
- 2018 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change Brief for the United States of America
Jan. 22, noon ET
Climate change has many impacts on public health including the transmission of infectious diseases. Changes in temperature and rainfall mean that mosquitos and ticks that transmit disease become more plentiful and affect more regions of the U.S. and the rest of the world. More destructive storms destroy public health infrastructure and expose more people to water-borne diseases. Changes in humidity increase the risk of illnesses being spread through bodily fluids.
Learn more about these impacts from two environmental health experts and story ideas to illuminate how climate change is changing the spread of disease in animals and people.
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Aaron Bernstein, M.D., M.P.H., pediatric hospitalist, and co-director, Boston Children’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Gina McCarthy, director, Center for Climate, Health and Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; former EPA administrator
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Moderator: Bara Vaida, core topic leader, infectious diseases, AHCJ
Gina McCarthy is Professor of the Practice of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE). In this capacity, she leads the development of the School’s strategy in climate science, health, and sustainability; strengthens the climate science and health curriculum. Previously, she served under President Barack Obama as the 13th Administrator of the EPA from 2013–2017. Before that, she was Assistant Administrator for the EPA Office of Air and Radiation, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Deputy Secretary of the Massachusetts Office of Commonwealth Development, and Undersecretary of Policy for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. She holds a Master of Science in Environmental Health Engineering and Planning and Policy from Tufts University and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Anthropology from University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Aaron Bernstein is a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Children’s Hospital and co-director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In his work at the Center, Bernstein examines the human health effects of global environmental changes, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, with the aim of promoting a deeper understanding of these subjects among students, educators, policy makers, and the public. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in Human Biology from Stanford University, he received graduate degrees in medicine (MD) and public health (MPH), from the University of Chicago and Harvard University, respectively. At Harvard, he is the course director for Human Health and Global Environmental Change. He serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health Executive Committee, the Board of Scientific Counselors to the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the Board of Directors of the U.S. Green Building Council.
