Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment
We seek climate solutions that can provide for a healthier and more just world today and a livable future for our children.
665 Huntington Avenue
Building 1, Room 1312
Boston, MA 02115
Research
We tackle key issues that are essential for building healthy, just, and sustainable communities.
We inform decision makers about the health consequences of our dependence on fossil fuels, and help identify solutions that will enable the healthiest, most equitable path forward. Our work aims to put health and equity at the forefront of climate solutions.
Climate and Health Care Delivery
We inform health care providers on how fossil fuel pollution and climate change impacts patient health and health care delivery and provide and evaluate strategies to safeguard patient health against climate stressors.
Teaching Climate and Health
We develop and evaluate curricula that train health professionals to identify and address the health impacts of climate change in their patients.
Past Projects
Browse a selection of issues we’ve researched to guide decision makers in crafting policies and programs that improve health in climate change and infectious disease, fossil fuels and health, natural gas and gas stoves, clean energy and health, and climate policies and health.
Check out our latest work
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Healthcare, cities, and climate change: Challenges and opportunities
Learn how cities and healthcare systems can work together to adapt to climate change
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Wildfires are deadlier and costlier due to climate change
Research shows that climate change has led to thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in economic costs over 15 years due to exposure to wildfire smoke pollution.
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A climate resilient toolkit helps frontline clinics keep patients safe
New research evaluations a tool to help frontline health clinics become climate resilient.
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Improving climate action through public health policy initiatives
Implementing public health policies that also include climate co-benefits may be a practical policy pathway to accelerate climate mitigation.
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Wildfires pose challenges to cancer care
A new study finds that wildfires pose challenges for lung cancer patients recovering from surgery.
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The dangers of air pollution for heart health
Harvard Chan environmental health experts explain how air pollution affects the heart.
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Long-term, multi-institutional study on health impacts of Los Angeles wildfires launched
Researchers from four universities have launched a 10-year study of the Los Angeles fires—an unprecedented collective scientific effort to understand the short- and long-term health impacts of wildfires.
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New Study Highlights Disconnect Between AMA’s Stance on Climate Change and Political Contributions
A new study finds a disconnect between the American Medical Association’s climate advocacy and their political donations.
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Frontline Health Clinics’ Knowledge, Motivators, and Behaviors on Climate Change
Our survey is the first to assess climate and health knowledge, motivators, preferences, and needs of all staff at frontline safety net clinics.
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Preterm and early-term birth, heat waves, and our changing climate
Heat waves pose an escalating threat to human health in general and the health of pregnant people and infants in particular.
