Climate Change and Health Justice: New Perspectives on Pressing Challenges

ABSTRACT

In 2017, AJPH launched a new section on "Climate Change and Health Justice," reflecting growing evidence of the near-term effects of climate change on public health and the substantial disparities in those effects. AJPH invites research articles as well as other contributions that provide empirical evidence of and relevant commentary on the effects of climate change or climate action on health before, during, and after a global pandemic. Racial and health justice clearly extend well beyond COVID-19, and we are interested in numerous public health topics with a similar lens on informing or evaluating interventions that address root causes of disparities. Because many of these root causes are related to longstanding racist policies such as redlining, the Journal is interested in both contemporary empirical evidence and history essays that are relevant to understanding current conditions and developing an antiracist public health agenda.