Climate Change as a Health Crisis: Disease, Disasters, and a Path to Resilience

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Join Dan Ferber, Ph.D., journalist and coauthor of Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It.
 
Much of the public discourse about “global warming” has focused on temperatures, melting glaciers and slowly rising seas. But climate change is already harming the health of people around the world. In their new book, Changing Planet, Changing Health, Dan Ferber and coauthor Paul Epstein, MD, associate director of the Center for Health and Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, reveal the surprising links between climate change and cholera, malaria, Lyme disease, asthma, and other maladies. Ferber will discuss his on-the-ground investigations of these threats in Kenya, Honduras, Harlem, Wyoming and elsewhere. He’ll also present the suite of innovative policy solutions that he and Epstein propose to address the global health threats caused by climate change.

Dan Ferber specializes in putting a human face on groundbreaking stories about science, technology, health and the environment. As a contributing correspondent for Science and a contributor to national magazines such as Reader’s Digest, Wired, Popular Science and Audubon, he’s covered topics from malaria to cancer, from air pollution to coral reefs, from wildfire modeling to wetland conservation. In Changing Planet, Changing Health he drew on this experience and on coauthor Paul Epstein’s body of work to clarify the fundamental links between human health, healthy biological systems, and global climate. Ferber holds a Ph.D. in biology from Johns Hopkins University and a masters in journalism from the University of Illinois. For more information, see http://danferber.com.

 Sponsored by the Science Writers in New York.

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