Epidemiology | Page 2 | New Voices Fellowship

May 3, 2014

A Canadian man returning from Liberia recently alarmed health officials with fears that he might have the Ebola virus. Although in good health when he traveled, the man was admitted to the intensive-care unit in Saskatchewan with classic symptoms of the disease. That health scare, and others in recent weeks, were a wake-up call to …

Op-Ed

Geoengineering: a tool for mitigating the human health impacts of climate change

Michigan Risk Science Center

April 25, 2014

Climate change is closely associated with adverse human health impacts(1). Amongst the raft of options to reduce current and projected impacts is massive scale environmental engineering to reduce the rate of global warming – often referred to as geoengineering. The potential health benefits of such intentional environmental manipulation should be taken seriously as increasing numbers …