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SECTION SCOPE

The PLOS Climate Health section covers all aspects of human health and health systems in the context of climate change, including (but not limited to):

Infectious diseases
Zoonoses
Non-communicable disease
Health systems resilience
Mental health
Extreme weather impacts
Air pollution

For a full list of the Academic Editors serving in this section, please visit the PLOS Climate editorial board page.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN THIS SECTION

Rizmie D, Christo E, Carosella EA, Almstead L, Bhinge M, Sivasankaran A (2025) The role of climate services for health: Theoretical case studies on heat-health warning systems in India. PLOS Clim 4(12): e0000637. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000637

Ashorn M, Allen T, Guo J, Rocklöv J (2025) Assessing children’s vulnerability to climate change in Small Island Developing States – A case study from Saint Kitts and Nevis. PLOS Clim 4(12): e0000789. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000789

Kubota K (2025) From awareness to action: A three‑lever, CMIP‑aligned roadmap to decarbonize and climate‑proof Japan’s healthcare sector. PLOS Clim 4(12): e0000785. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000785

Maina TW, Williams C, Jaenisch T, Bärnighausen T, Berner-Rodoreda A, Bärnighausen K (2025) “Heat is a danger to my health even though I said I am used to it”: Qualitative insights of workplace heat among community health workers and health promoters in Kenya. PLOS Clim 4(12): e0000748. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000748

Sánchez-Vargas A, Castillo F, Wehner M, Vanos JK, López-Carr D (2025) The combined effect of extreme heat and COVID-19 on agricultural labor supply in California communities. PLOS Clim 4(12): e0000770. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000770

Baker N, Shirley H, Kline MC, Malits J, Mandalapu A, Mazumder DR, et al. (2025) Evaluating the impact of a longitudinal, integrated climate change, health, and environment curriculum in undergraduate medical training at Harvard Medical School. PLOS Clim 4(12): e0000727. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000727

Mikaelsson MA, Jennings NR, Lawrance EL (2025) Systems-level risks of the climate crisis are currently missed: A mental health lens. PLOS Clim 4(10): e0000722. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000722

López Toledano MD, Low A, Aviso M, Lam ST, Jacinto K, Hyat Ayub M, et al. (2025) Toward ‘planetary health security’? Critical scoping review of conceptual linkages between ‘health security’ and ‘planetary health’. PLOS Clim 4(10): e0000593. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000593

Clech L, Franceschin L, Nazmul Islam M, Shamsul Kabir MM, Rezoan Kobir D, Sarker M, et al. (2025) Waterlogging, health and healthcare access in southwest Bangladesh. PLOS Clim 4(9): e0000605. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000605

Schryer R, Norman M, Kulkarni MA (2025) Investigating the recommendations and governmental actions to address the emerging risks of vector-borne diseases in Canada’s changing climate: A scoping review. PLOS Clim 4(9): e0000546. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000546

Cole R, Wan K, Murage P, Macintyre HL, Hajat S, Heaviside C (2025) Projections of heat related mortality under combined climate and socioeconomic adaptation scenarios for England and Wales. PLOS Clim 4(7): e0000553. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000553

Vasilakopoulou K, Santamouris M (2025) Cumulative exposure to urban heat can affect the learning capacity of students and penalize the vulnerable and low-income young population: A systematic review. PLOS Clim 4(7): e0000618. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000618

Kowalcyk M, Kim H, Rakinyo AO, Dorevitch S (2025) Application of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change risk framework to estimate risk of weather-related diarrheal disease in Western Kenya. PLOS Clim 4(8): e0000549. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000549

Arregui-García B, Ascione C, Pera A, Wang B, Stocco D, Carlson CJ, et al. (2025) Disruption of outdoor activities caused by wildfire smoke shapes circulation of respiratory pathogens. PLOS Clim 4(6): e0000542. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000542

Gari T, Mezgebe B, Belayneh M, Mersha Y, Lindtjørn B (2025) Effect of climate variability, crop production, and household food insecurity on malnutrition among women: A mediation analysis from a drought-prone area in Southern Ethiopia. PLOS Clim 4(6): e0000452. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000452

Sorensen C, Magalhaes DdP, Campbell H, Hamacher N, Patel J, Henry P, et al. (2025) Improving health professionals’ capacity to respond to the climate crisis: Outcomes of the Caribbean climate and health responder course. PLOS Clim 4(6): e0000566. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000566

Ridde V, Barua M, Bonnet E, Casseus A, Clech L, De Allegri M, et al. (2025) Improving an integrative framework of health system resilience and climate change: Lessons from Bangladesh and Haiti. PLOS Clim 4(6): e0000512. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000512

Jahn S, Fraser K, Gaythorpe KAM, Wainwright CM, Ferguson NM (2025) Evaluating the role of observational uncertainty in climate impact assessments: Temperature-driven yellow fever risk in South America. PLOS Clim 4(6): e0000601. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000601

Bakhshi M, Chaudhari R, Alaga L, Balasubramaniam N, Belaiche A, Bouchet T, et al. (2025) Medicine in a warming world: The critical role of physicians. PLOS Clim 4(5): e0000630. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000630

Hernandez-Manrique OL, Albert-Fonseca A, Baroja E, Skidmore-Lapuente A, Jauregui I, Portune K, et al. (2025) Addressing health from a socio-ecological systems perspective. PLOS Clim 4(5): e0000629. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000629

Schulte C, Erhardt-Ohren B, Prata N (2025) A scoping review of natural disasters, environmental hazards, and maternal health: Are all potential outcomes accounted for in conceptual frameworks? PLOS Clim 4(1): e0000558. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000558

Courdier S, Bouchet A, Karlen M, Boucher J, D’Acremont V, Vernez D (2025) The direct emissions related to Global Warming Potential of different types of diagnostic tests at different phases of the COVID pandemic: A climate-focused life-cycle assessment. PLOS Clim 4(1): e0000561. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000561

Bryson JM, Patterson K, Cunsolo A, Berrang-Ford L, Lwasa S, Namanya DB, et al. (2024) “When you have stress because you don’t have food”: Climate, food security, and mental health during pregnancy among Bakiga and Indigenous Batwa women in rural Uganda. PLOS Clim 3(10): e0000399. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000399

Díaz AR, Rollock L, Boodram L-LG, Mahon R, Best S, Trotman A, et al. (2024) A demand-driven climate services for health implementation framework: A case study for climate-sensitive diseases in Caribbean Small Island Developing States. PLOS Clim 3(10): e0000282. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000282

Mannell J, Brown LJ, Jordaan E, Hatcher A, Gibbs A (2024) The impact of environmental shocks due to climate change on intimate partner violence: A structural equation model of data from 156 countries. PLOS Clim 3(10): e0000478. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000478

Zhao D, Epel E, Allen E, Hwong AR (2024) Exposure to climate events and mental health: Risk and protective factors from the California Health Interview Survey. PLOS Clim 3(8): e0000387. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000387

Yglesias-González M, Díaz A, Dunbar W (2024) Turning up the heat on public health: Adapting to extreme temperatures in Latin America and the Caribbean. PLOS Clim 3(7): e0000446. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000446

Kline MC, Malits JR, Baker N, Shirley H, Grobman B, Callison WÉ, et al. (2024) Climate Change, Environment, and Health: The implementation and initial evaluation of a longitudinal, integrated curricular theme and novel competency framework at Harvard Medical School. PLOS Clim 3(5): e0000412. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000412

Ryan SJ, Lippi CA, Stewart-Ibarra AM (2024) Mapping geographic and demographic shifts for container breeding mosquito-borne disease transmission suitability in Central and South America in a warming world. PLOS Clim 3(5): e0000312. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000312

Murage P, Asenga A, Tarimo A, Njunge T, van der Zaan T, Chiwanga F (2024) Natural regeneration of drylands and associated pathways to human health outcomes: Perspectives from rural households. PLOS Clim 3(4): e0000206. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000206

Araujo Navas AL, Janko MM, Benítez FL, Narvaez M, Vasco LE, Kansara P, et al. (2024) Impact of climate and land use/land cover changes on malaria incidence in the Ecuadorian Amazon. PLOS Clim 3(4): e0000315. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000315

McIver L, Beavon E, Malm A, Awad A, Uyen A, Devine C, et al. (2024) Impacts of climate change on human health in humanitarian settings: Evidence gaps and future research needs. PLOS Clim 3(3): e0000243. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000243

Kirk D, Straus S, Childs ML, Harris M, Couper L, Davies TJ, et al. (2024) Temperature impacts on dengue incidence are nonlinear and mediated by climatic and socioeconomic factors: A meta-analysis. PLOS Clim 3(3): e0000152. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000152

Wang H, Zeng H, Miao H, Shu C, Guo Y, Ji JS (2024) Climate factors associated with cancer incidence: An ecological study covering 33 cancers from population-based registries in 37 countries. PLOS Clim 3(3): e0000362. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000362

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