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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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.
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Toward a Climate-Ready Health Care System: Institutional Motivators and Workforce Engagement
Dr. Caleb Dresser argues that health care systems must reframe incentives and engage their workforce to become climate-resilient.
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The 2023 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Policy Brief for the U.S.
Related: Lancet Countdown 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 Quick links: The Lancet Countdown’s 2023 U.S. Brief underscores the escalating threat of fossil fuel pollution and climate change to…
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Federal investments in climate change and health research are inadequate says Harvard analysis
Critical knowledge gaps hinder an evidence-based response and are perpetuated by scarce federal research funds.
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Advancing integrated governance for health through national biodiversity strategies and action plans
Harvard Chan researchers provide recommendations for policymakers to improve biodiversity and health.
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Warm-Season Temperatures and Emergency Department Visits among Children with Health Insurance
A new study looks at the impacts of extreme heat on children.
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The 2022 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Policy Brief for the U.S.
Climate change puts everyone at risk, but policy decisions and industry actions make some communities more vulnerable to the harms of climate change.
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Hundreds of Hospitals on Atlantic and Gulf Coasts at Risk of Flooding from Hurricanes
Our study is the first to systematically investigate flooding risk to nearly 700 U.S. hospitals on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts from Category 1-4 storms.
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Home is Where the Pipeline Ends
Every day, millions of Americans rely on natural gas to power appliances such as kitchen stoves, furnaces, and water heaters, but until now very little data existed on the chemical…
