COVID-19 and climate change: Crises of structural racism

James P Healy¹, Anpotowin Jensen², Maria Belen Power³, Bill McKibben^{4

5}, Gary Cohen⁶, Gaurab Basu^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Landmark Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
² Stanford School of Engineering, Stanford University, 530 Escondido Mall #40, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
³ GreenRoots, 227 Marginal Street, Suite 1, Chelsea, MA 02150, USA.
⁴ 350.org, PO Box 843004, Boston, MA 02284-3004, USA.
⁵ Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05766, USA.
⁶ Health Care Without Harm, Boston, MA 02130, USA.
⁷ Cambridge Health Alliance, Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy, 1493 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
⁸ Instructor Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

PMID: 34786573
PMCID: PMC8580559
DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2021.100092

Editorial

COVID-19 and climate change: Crises of structural racism

James P Healy et al. J Clim Chang Health. 2022 Feb.

. 2022 Feb:5:100092.

doi: 10.1016/j.joclim.2021.100092. Epub 2021 Nov 2.

Authors

James P Healy¹, Anpotowin Jensen², Maria Belen Power³, Bill McKibben^{4

5}, Gary Cohen⁶, Gaurab Basu^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Landmark Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
² Stanford School of Engineering, Stanford University, 530 Escondido Mall #40, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
³ GreenRoots, 227 Marginal Street, Suite 1, Chelsea, MA 02150, USA.
⁴ 350.org, PO Box 843004, Boston, MA 02284-3004, USA.
⁵ Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05766, USA.
⁶ Health Care Without Harm, Boston, MA 02130, USA.
⁷ Cambridge Health Alliance, Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy, 1493 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
⁸ Instructor Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

PMID: 34786573
PMCID: PMC8580559
DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2021.100092

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Keywords: COVID-19; Climate change; Structural racism.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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