Climate Change Is Bringing New Health Threats, and the School of Medicine Has a Strategy

Climate change is affecting health, from concerns about new viral threats and rising numbers of deaths from severe heat to growing instances of kidney diseases in youths. The Duke School of Medicine has a strategy for targeting research to provide solutions to current medical concerns and ones that will likely come in the future.

In this video, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the Duke University School of Medicine Dr. Mary Klotman talks with Dr. Robert Tighe about the school’s new climate change research strategy, emphasizing the critical need to address the climate crisis and its impact on health.

Tighe, appointed to lead this effort, highlights ongoing interdisciplinary research to understand and mitigate the profound effects of climate change on the health of our communities.