Review

. 2022 May;77(5):1389-1407.

doi: 10.1111/all.15229. Epub 2022 Feb 8.

Climate change and global health: A call to more research and more action

Ioana Agache¹, Vanitha Sampath², Juan Aguilera², Cezmi A Akdis³, Mubeccel Akdis³, Michele Barry⁴, Aude Bouagnon⁵, Sharon Chinthrajah^{2

6}, William Collins^{2

7}, Coby Dulitzki², Barbara Erny⁸, Jason Gomez^{9

10}, Anna Goshua⁹, Marek Jutel^{11

12}, Kenneth W Kizer¹³, Olivia Kline², A Desiree LaBeaud¹⁴, Isabella Pali-Schöll^{15

16}, Kirsten P Perrett^{17

18

19}, Rachel L Peters^{17

18}, Maria Pilar Plaza^{20

21}, Mary Prunicki², Todd Sack²², Renee N Salas^{23

24}, Sayantani B Sindher², Susanne H Sokolow^{25

26}, Cassandra Thiel²⁷, Erika Veidis⁴, Brittany Delmoro Wray^{4

25

28}, Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann^{20

21

29}, Christian Witt³⁰, Kari C Nadeau^{2

6}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania.
² Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
³ Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University Zurich, Davos, Switzerland.
⁴ Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁵ Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁶ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁷ Division of Hospital Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Med/Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁹ Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
¹⁰ Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California, USA.
¹¹ Department of Clinical Immunology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
¹² "ALL-MED" Medical Research Institute, Wroclaw, Poland.
¹³ Atlas Research, LLC, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Disease, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
¹⁵ Comparative Medicine, Interuniversity Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine/Medical University/University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹⁶ Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Immunology and Infectiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹⁷ Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
¹⁸ Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
¹⁹ Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
²⁰ Department of Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
²¹ Institute of Environmental Medicine, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Augsburg, Germany.
²² My Green Doctor Foundation, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
²³ Harvard Global Health Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
²⁴ Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
²⁵ Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
²⁶ Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
²⁷ Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY, USA.
²⁸ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London, UK.
²⁹ Christine Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE), Davos, Switzerland.
³⁰ Institute of Physiology, Division of Pneumology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 35073410
PMCID: PMC12039856
DOI: 10.1111/all.15229

Review

Climate change and global health: A call to more research and more action

Ioana Agache et al. Allergy. 2022 May.

. 2022 May;77(5):1389-1407.

doi: 10.1111/all.15229. Epub 2022 Feb 8.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania.
² Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
³ Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University Zurich, Davos, Switzerland.
⁴ Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁵ Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁶ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁷ Division of Hospital Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Med/Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
⁹ Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
¹⁰ Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California, USA.
¹¹ Department of Clinical Immunology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.
¹² "ALL-MED" Medical Research Institute, Wroclaw, Poland.
¹³ Atlas Research, LLC, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Disease, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
¹⁵ Comparative Medicine, Interuniversity Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine/Medical University/University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹⁶ Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Immunology and Infectiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹⁷ Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
¹⁸ Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
¹⁹ Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
²⁰ Department of Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
²¹ Institute of Environmental Medicine, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Augsburg, Germany.
²² My Green Doctor Foundation, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
²³ Harvard Global Health Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
²⁴ Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
²⁵ Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
²⁶ Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
²⁷ Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY, USA.
²⁸ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London, UK.
²⁹ Christine Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE), Davos, Switzerland.
³⁰ Institute of Physiology, Division of Pneumology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 35073410
PMCID: PMC12039856
DOI: 10.1111/all.15229

Erratum in

Correction to "Climate change and global health: A call to more research and more action".
[No authors listed] [No authors listed] Allergy. 2024 Aug;79(8):2309. doi: 10.1111/all.16205. Epub 2024 Jun 25. Allergy. 2024. PMID: 38924103 No abstract available.

Abstract

There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change and increased pollution will have a profound and mostly harmful effect on human health. This review brings together international experts to describe both the direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector-borne disease incidence) health impacts of climate change. These impacts vary depending on vulnerability (i.e., existing diseases) and the international, economic, political, and environmental context. This unique review also expands on these issues to address a third category of potential longer-term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, and environmental justice and education. This scholarly resource explores these issues fully, linking them to global health in urban and rural settings in developed and developing countries. The review finishes with a practical discussion of action that health professionals around the world in our field can yet take.

Keywords: climate change; greenhouse gases; health; pollution.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr. Jutel has received grants or contracts from Stallergenesm Allergopharma, GSK, Genentech, Takeda, and Chiesi; consulting fees from Stallergenesm Allergopharma, and Chiesi; Payment or honoraria from Stallergenesm Allergopharma, and ALK; Participated on DSMB or Advisory board for Stallergenesm and Allergopharma; president of EAACI; Unrelated to this publication, Dr. Thiel is a paid consultant for Becton Dickenson, a paid advisor to The Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, an unpaid member of the Mass General Center for Climate and Health advisory board, a member of the advisory board for Zabble, Inc. for which she has received stock options and a paid consultant for the Stryker Corporation and received honoraria for lectures hosted by 3M. All other authors indicate no conflict of interest. Dr Cezmi Akdis reports research grants from Allergopharma, Idorsia, Swiss National Science Foundation, Christine Kühne-Center for Allergy Research and Education, European Commission’s Horison’s 2020 Framework Programme “Cure”, Novartis Research Institutes, Astra Zeneca, research grants and advisory board from Glaxo Smith-Kline, Sanofi/Regeneron, Scibase, Novartis, and is Editor-in-Chief of Allergy. Dr. Agache is Associate Editor of Allergy. All other authors report no COI.

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Displaced on the frontlines of the climate emergency. UNHCR. Accessed Aug 20, 2021. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/065d18218b654c798ae9f360a626d903

**Figure 2:**
Health effects associated with climate change

**Figure 3:**
Climate change collective action (Reproduced from York AM et al. Integrating institutional approaches and decision science to address climate change: a multi-level collective

**Figure 4.**
Climate change regulations around the world. Countries shaded grey are not yet covered by the database. Source: Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Sabin Center on Climate Change Law at the Columbia Law School (https://climate-laws.org/)

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