NEJM: The Imperative for Climate Action to Protect Health

This Lancet Series explores current challenges that remain in treating tuberculosis (TB) globally, such as the need for improvement in diagnosis of multidrug-resistant TB—currently affecting four to six percent of the global population. The Series also illuminates the lack of attention to children with TB in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment—with an estimated 1 million children undiagnosed and untreated each year. Although progress has been made in research and development of TB vaccines in the past…

This report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security identifies policies for making the U.S. health sector more resilient to major disasters. Although the health sector has reasonable capacity to address small mass injuries or illness (e.g., tornadoes or small disease outbreaks), it is less prepared for large disasters or injury events (e.g., hurricanes and bombings), and poorly prepared for catastrophic disasters like pandemics and bioterrorism. To address these gaps, the authors recommend building…

This report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) explores the scale, patterns, drivers, and impacts of internal displacement associated with slow-onset climate change. Slow-onset climate change includes phenomena such as desertification, glacial retreat, loss of biodiversity, among others; when combined with socioeconomic and governance factors, it sets the stage for specific triggers of displacement like loss of land, livelihoods, and resources. The broader goal of this report is to inform policies and practices for…