Planetary Health at Johns Hopkins
Children in Baltimore City are about twice as likely to have asthma as children nationwide. The country Tuvalu is disappearing because of sea-level rise, with more than one third of its citizens applying for climate visas in Australia. Extreme weather events, such as heat waves and floods, put thousands of people in the United States at risk of illness, injury or death. What I learned in medical school (in excruciating detail) is that we are biological organisms. What my classes haven't ackno...| Biomedical Odyssey
