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U.S. Climate Change Science Program Must Focus on Health, Experts Say

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
Contact:
Jennifer Andreassen, 202-572-3387, jandreassen@edf.org
 
(Washington – February 23, 2009)  The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) must make public health a strong focus as it undergoes an internal reorganization under the Obama administration, say leading medical experts, health and environmental groups.
 
A memorandum signed by 22 medical experts and 10 groups recommends that CCSP correct the program’s historic “relative under-emphasis…on human health and human dimensions in general” and instead address “the important and growing gaps in knowledge and practice.”
 
The 10 groups that signed the memo are: the AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics, American Nurses Association, American Public Health Association, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Children’s Environmental Health Network, Environmental Defense Fund, Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association, National Association of County and City Health Officials, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Physicians for Social Responsibility.
 
The memo, whose lead author was Dr. John Balbus, chief scientist for Environmental Defense Fund and a member of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine details six specific recommendations to CCSP:
 
  1. Explicitly state that one of the core goals of CCSP is the pre