What’s in the report?
The agenda covers 18 priority areas organized into four domains:
Research for Action on Climate Change and Health in the Caribbean
The 2024 report “Research for Action on Climate Change and Health in the Caribbean: A Public, Private, People’s and Planetary Agenda” is the first comprehensive research agenda for climate action to protect health in the Caribbean. It was developed by the R4ACCHC project — a partnership of six institutions including the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, The University of the West Indies, Emory University, and the Pan American Health Organization.
Domain 1: Climate Change Health Impacts, Exposures, and Vulnerability
How climate change affects health in the Caribbean — extreme weather events, vector-borne diseases, water and sanitation, noncommunicable diseases, air quality, heat-related illness, mental health, population displacement, and equity and justice.
Domain 3: Mitigation Actions and Health Co-Benefits
How reducing emissions can improve health — protecting marine resources, building climate-friendly health-promoting infrastructure, and developing smart health facilities.
Domain 2: Adaptation, Planning and Resilience for Health
Preparing health systems for climate impacts through collaboration between agencies, research and surveillance, agriculture and food safety and security, and awareness- and skills-building.
Domain 4: Resources and Engagement for Climate Change and Health Action
Securing the means for action: funding streams for climate and health, and government engagement in health and climate change.
Co-Chair
Robert Dubrow, MD, PhD
Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Yale School of Public Health.
Email: robert.dubrow@yale.edu