Many climate-change adaptation teams in large cities throughout the world have not adequately integrated public health agencies in their planning, according to findings published in PLOS Climate.
“Public health integration in urban climate adaptation planning remains more a goal than a reality; even highly health-adaptive large cities report fairly modest public health engagement in climate adaptation plans, and very few seem to have integrated a health perspective across thematic or sectoral climate adaptation priorities,” Mary C. Sheehan, PhD, MPH, a faculty associate at the