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Climate Change Will Seriously Impact Human Health, But Research Lacking, Peer-Reviewed Report Concludes

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Climate Change Will Seriously Impact Human Health, But Research Lacking, Peer-Reviewed Report Concludes

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Contact:
Jennifer Andreassen, 202-572-3387, jandreassen@edf.org
John Balbus, 202-572-3316, jbalbus@edf.org

(Washington, D.C. – March 18, 2009) Climate change will seriously impact public health, but the United States is failing to support the research needed to prepare for it, according to a report published in the peer-reviewed journal published by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
 
“The lack of attention from the Federal government on the health risks of climate change to U.S. populations is needlessly putting multitudes at risk,” warns the report, “U.S. Funding is Insufficient to Address the Human Health Impacts of and Public Health Responses to Climate Variability and Change,” published in Environmental Health Perspectives.
 
The report is co-authored by the same authors who wrote the Climate Change and Human Health chapter in the July 2008 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report: “Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems,” including Environmental Defense Fund”s Chief Health Scientist Dr. John Balbus.  Dr. Balbus also is a member of the National Academy of Science Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, the