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Rising Sea Levels and Population Displacement: How Can The Global Public Health Community Prepare?

Rising Sea Levels and Population Displacement: How Can The Global Public Health Community Prepare?

India is anticipating a massive wave of refugee migration from neighboring Bangladesh. This feared population swell – India already has 1.2 billion people of its own – would come not from anticipated political corruption, but from climate change. India projects that rising sea levels will yield an unprecedented number of Bangladeshi “climate refugees” seeking basic […]

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Infectious Diseases – Exacerbated by Climate Change?

Infectious Diseases – Exacerbated by Climate Change?

I went to an interesting talk last night by Dr. Anthony Fauci.  He is the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.  The Foreign Policy Association initiated a new series with his talk:  the Dame Jillian Sackler Distinguished Lecture.  (She was married to Arthur Sackler, the research psychiatrist and art patron.) Dr. […]

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