Annals of Global Health

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• SPECIAL COLLECTION - Lessons from the field: Case studies to advance research on climate adaptation strategies and their impact on public health

  Populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are disproportionately impacted by extreme weather, high temperatures, and other consequences of a changing climate. A variety of adaptation strategies have been and continue to be developed to prepare for, and adjust to, these impacts. However, the scientific evidence base for many of these strategies is limited and largely driven by researchers from high-income countries. More research is needed to understand how current or historical adaptation strategies can be better harnessed to address deteriorating health outcomes using relevant and appropriate research approaches and methodologies. LMIC researchers should be involved in, and ideally lead, research activities in their countries as well.

  This Special Collection includes case studies from 14 countries—written by researchers from around the globe— and aims to:

  • Center the importance of health as a critical outcome in the larger climate adaptation research and implementation agenda.
  • Encourage scholars and funders to conduct and support more high-quality adaptation research.
  • Review current adaptation strategies to improve our understanding of adaptive capacity of populations most at risk.
  • Identify how and when the impact of climate-led adaptation responses on public health outcomes has been or can be assessed through research.

  This collection was commissioned by the Fogarty International Center at NIH with support from the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative between August 2023 and November 2024.

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  Guest Editors:

  Praveen Kumar, Boston College School of Social Work

  Stella Hartinger, Cayetano Heredia University, Peru

  Sokhna Thiam, African Population Health Research Center, Senegal

• Special Collection: Plastics and Human Health

  Plastics are the signature material of our age. They have contributed to improvements in human health, extensions in longevity, and growth of the global economy and supported some of the most significant advances of modern civilization. It is now clear, though, that plastics’ benefits have come at a cost and that plastics have caused great harms to human health, the environment and the economy. These harms arise at every stage of the plastic life cycle. They extend far beyond such obvious damages as beach litter and contaminated mid-ocean gyres and include occupational cancers in plastic workers, childhood leukemia in ‘fenceline’ communities, endocrine disruption, and damage to the developing brains of newborn infants. They are associated with deep social injustices.

  
  We have created this Special Collection on Plastics and Human Health to direct the attention of health workers, scientists, the press, civil society, and the global public to plastics’ large and largely neglected hazards and to inform the work of government leaders and international negotiators as they strive to fulfill the urgent call of the United Nations Environment Assembly to curb plastic pollution and mitigate its unsustainable impacts by negotiating a Global Plastics Treaty.

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