This article recently published in The Millbank Quaterly was led by Caleb Dresser from the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-Change) at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. As the title implies, the article focuses on the need to shape the healthcare workforce (in the broadest sense, not just clinicians, but anyone included in the delivery of healthcare) into both being more sustainable and also adaptable to the impacts of climate change. The article includes a nice background section about the US healthcare system, opportunities for reduced impact for various professions with the healthcare system, and some key policy recommendations moving forward. This is definitely worth a read; in my opinion, it does a really nice job of bridging high-level ideas about sustainability, adaptation, resilience, etc, with really specific and tangible actions that can be taken in the healthcare sector. There is a shorter news piece from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health here and the full article here.
Climate change is a clear and present danger to health, says UKHSA
This editorial in the BMJ refers to a report from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). The editorial highlights the important implications for health in the UK under various global heating scenarios, including the risk of vector-borne diseases, the impacts to social and mental health, etc. Omissions from the UKHSA report are also highlighted in the editorial, which the authors suggest should have been provided. The UKHSA omitted topics with insufficient evidence but the authors of the editorial (rightly!) point out that providing this could have been used to direct future research/action (essentially a checklist of gaps to fill!). Certainly worth a read and while the UKHSA report is quite length (~700 pages), they've broken it into chapters on their website, and it's also worth a look. Read the editorial here.