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The NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative is an urgent, cross-cutting NIH effort to reduce health threats from climate change across the lifespan and build health resilience in individuals, communities, and nations around the world, especially among those at highest risk.
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Strategic Framework

The NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative Strategic Framework includes input from the scientific and stakeholder communities. The Framework provides the initial planning of how the NIH community will address climate change and health.

Seminar Series
NIH Institutes and Centers (IC) have joined forces to educate and inform colleagues and the public about the human health implications of climate change. This series will present webinars from different ICs highlighting work in the field of climate change while promoting transdisciplinary discussion and collaboration in this concerted effort against an extreme threat to health.
- May 13, 2022, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. EDT – A Precision Health Approach for Actionable Climate Change and Health Research
- April 8, 2022, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST – Climate and Emergency Care (and Trauma) Systems
- February 22, 2022, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST – Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Health: What Lies Ahea
- February 9, 2022, noon – 1:00 p.m. EST – Why Climate Change Is a Health Threat
- December 17, 2021
- November 2, 2021 – Climate Resilience and Health Equity in Black Neighborhoods: The Case for Urban Nature
- August 16, 2021 – Developing a Climate Change and Health Research Agenda for the NIH: Adaptation, Equity and Big Data
Literature Portal
Locate the most relevant scientific literature on the health implications of climate change.
Climate Change and Health Literature Portal
Participating Institutes and Centers
The NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative is led by an Executive Committee comprising the Directors of seven NIH Institutes and Centers. The NIEHS Director chairs the Executive Committee and NIEHS provides the Initiative's administrative home.
Executive Committee
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Rick Woychik, Ph.D. (Chair)
Fogarty International Center (FIC)
Roger I. Glass, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Eliseo J. Perez-Stable, M.D.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH}
Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
Shannon N. Zenk, PhD, MPH, RN, FMN
Eunice Kennedy Schriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Diana I. Bianchi, M.D.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Gary H. Gibbons, M.D.
NIH Climate Change and Health Working Group
Aubrey Miller, M.D., NIEHS, Co-chair
Joshua Rosenthal, Ph.D., FIC, Co-chair
Gwen Collman, Ph.D., NIEHS, Strategic Advisor
Steering Committee
Regina Bures
Program Director;
Population Dynamics Branch;
NIH/NICHD
regina.bures@nih.gov
Larry Fine
NIH/NHLBI
finel@nhlbi.nih.gov
Lee Hall
Chief, Parasitology and International Programs Branch
NIH/NIAID
lhall@niaid.nih.gov
Flora Katz
Director, Division of International Training and Research;
NIH/FIC
katzf@mail.nih.gov
Megan Kinnane
Senior Advisor to the Director;
NIH/NIMH
megan.kinnane@nih.gov
Aubrey Miller
Senior Medical Advisor
NIH/NIEHS
miller.aubrey@nih.gov
Ivan Navarro
NIH/NIMHD
ivan.navarro@nih.gov
Louise Rosenbaum
Science Policy Analyst;
NIH/NINR
rosenbauml@mail.nih.gov
Joshua Rosenthal
Senior Scientist;
Division of Epidemiology and Population Studies
NIH/FIC
joshua.rosenthal@nih.gov
Claudia Thompson
Chief, Population Health Branch;
Division of Extramural Research and Training;
NIH/NIEHS
thompso1@niehs.nih.gov
Related Links
- NIH Catalyst Story May 6, 2022: Why Climate Change is a Health Threat
- NIEHS News Story: Climate change spurs big new plan for health research
- November 29, 2021 National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council (NAEHSC) meeting to consider a NIH-wide Climate Change and Health Concept
- Dr. Collins Responds to Climate Change and Health Question at 2021 House Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability