Lecture | Howard Frumkin on Climate Change and Health: From Clinical to Societal Implications Monday, December 14, 2015 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Sq, Room 503, New York, NY 10003, USA More info and RSVP: https://ipk.nyu.edu/calendar/events/281-lecture-howard-frumkin-on-climate-ch... NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge<http://ipk.nyu.edu/> and Program on Population Impact Recovery and Resilience<https://wp.nyu.edu/pir2/> invite you to a lecture by Dr. Howard Frumkin, Dean of the University of Washington School of Public Health and a world-renowned expert on the implications of climate change for public health. The changing climate presents a range of serious implications for public health in American cities, throughout the country, and around the world. Global warming, rising sea levels, changing hydrology, and more extreme weather events have not only disrupted earth systems, but also threaten human health and well-being. Some of these threats are direct and intuitive, such as the impacts of heat waves and severe storms. Others are less direct, such as increased risks of infectious diseases, respiratory diseases, and allergies. Still others are mediated through broad social disruptions, such as food scarcity and population dislocation. The health response must include both mitigation strategies and adaptation strategies that promote health and well-being. Within the health sector, both human resources and infrastructures must evolve to meet the needs of a population at increased risk due to climate change. In his lecture, Dr. Frumkin will address this broad set of issues, taking a systems approach, and moving from "diagnosis" to "treatment." An internist, epidemiologist, and environmental and occupational medicine specialist, Dr. Howard Frumkin<http://sph.washington.edu/faculty/fac_bio.asp?url_ID=Frumkin_Howard> has worked in academia and public service. He is currently Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. From 2005 to 2010 he held leadership roles at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, first as director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR), and later as Special Assistant to the CDC Director for Climate Change and Health. He is the author or co-author of over 200 scientific journal articles and chapters, and his books include Urban Sprawl and Public Health (Island Press, 2004, co-authored with Larry Frank and Dick Jackson; named a Top Ten Book of 2005 by Planetizen), Environmental Health: From Global to Local (Jossey-Bass, third edition forthcoming in 2016), and Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability (Island Press, 2011, co-edited with Andrew Dannenberg and Dick Jackson), among others. This lecture is a public keynote address to presage a convening of experts from across the natural and social sciences for a conference on climate change and public health at the Institute for Public Knowledge. These events are made possible by the generous support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation<http://www.rwjf.org/en.html>, a private philanthropic organization dedicated to building a culture of health for all Americans.