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Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes

By Gregg Mitman (NHC Fellow, 2004–05; 2020–21) Allergy is the sixth leading cause of chronic illness in the United States. More than fifty million Americans suffer from allergies, and they spend an estimated $18 billion coping with them. Yet despite advances in biomedicine and enormous investment in research over the past fifty years, the burden … Continued

Joni Adamson

The Language of Climate Change in an Age of Global Syndemic

In a COVID-19-affected world, the language of climate change must now illuminate the connections between climate change and contagions of various kinds, both biological (in the conventional sense of epidemiology) and anthropogenic (human drivers of global warming). For example, accelerating climate change often exacerbates the effects of poverty, displacement, and increased food insecurities, with significant … Continued