Richard M. Mizelle, Jr., Ph.D. More than 2 million people in the United States live without indoor plumbing or usable drinking water. Although having to worry about the origin, purity, and safety of water is often considered a premodern problem…
Rachel Morello-Frosch, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Osagie K. Obasogie, Ph.D., J.D. Driven primarily by fossil-fuel use and associated carbon emissions, climate change poses an existential threat to planetary life by transforming physical and social environments through rising sea levels, drought, heat…
David A. Ansell, M.D., M.P.H., Kaitlyn Fruin, M.D., Redia Holman, Ayesha Jaco, M.A.M., Bich Ha Pham, J.D., and David Zuckerman, M.P.P. In 2016, Rush University System for Health, an academic health system in Chicago, adopted an anchor strategy to tackle…
Frederica Perera, Dr.P.H., Ph.D., and Kari Nadeau, M.D., Ph.D. The combustion of fossil fuels (coal, petroleum [oil], and natural gas) is the major source of both air pollution and the greenhouse-gas emissions driving climate change. The fetus, infant, and child…
