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Capacity of health systems to anticipate, mitigate and manage situations arising from natural and man-made hazards, including biological hazards.

Across Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon, a joint UN programme is already delivering results by strengthening migrant-inclusive health systems through a single, coordinated approach.

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As deadly heat waves rise, federal policy fails to cover air conditioning

Federal safety net covers heating but cooling is optional. That needs to change, an LDI fellow writes.

University of Pennsylvania
Research briefs
Climate change costs lives by breaking down social connection

Climate change is a social crisis, disrupting connection, community and belonging

EurekAlert
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Humid heat: a growing health risk in a warming climate

The combination of extreme heat and humidity is dangerous and becoming more common in our warming climate.

Climate Central
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The long shadow of Maui’s wildfires

A therapist says many of his patients are still struggling with mental health consequences, three years after the disaster.

Yale Climate Connections
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How much do we know about the mental health economic costs of disasters?

This literature review focuses on the economic quantifications of the mental health consequences of disasters and how these mental health impacts can shape people’s economic trajectories.

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change (Springer)
The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship Hondius is seen at anchor.
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Hantavirus: A cruise ship, a deer mouse and the fictional line between human and animal health

In February 2025, the classical pianist Betsy Arakawa died. Her husband, the actor Gene Hackman, died a week later of heart disease. The pathogen that killed her was hantavirus, almost certainly picked up from deer mouse droppings on the property.

Conversation Media Group, the
Early warning in Indonesia
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Turning weather and climate data into early health action

Early warning is most effective when governance, data, and protocols align, helping health systems act earlier on climate-sensitive risks.

Development Asia
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Genome sequencing is rewriting the history of disease outbreaks – but without social context, it can tell only part of the story

Genome sequencing has changed how disease detectives study outbreaks by allowing them to read a pathogen’s genes as a biological record of where it came from and how it spread.

Conversation Media Group, the
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