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Climate Change and Health Impacts

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Andrew L. Fanning
University of Leeds
2
Luke Grant
Environment and Climate Change Canada
3
Samuel Kwasi Opoku
Universität Hamburg
4
Tara Crandon
The University of Queensland
5
Chloe Brimicombe
Royal Meteorological Society
6
Tomáš Janoš
Masaryk University
7
Di Xi
Imperial College London
8
Vivian Do
Columbia University
9
Gibson Owhoro Ofremu
Illinois Institute of Technology
10
Ehsan Foroutan
Oklahoma State University

Papers

1
Risk factors associated with heatwave mortality in Chinese adults over 65 years
Nature Medicine|2024
119 cit.
2
Publication in Green Energy and Resources (2024) [118 citations, W4396792721]
Green Energy and Resources|2024
118 cit.
3
Global emergence of unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes
Nature|2025
106 cit.
4
Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance
Nature|2025
45 cit.
5
A theoretical model of climate anxiety and coping
Discover Psychology|2024
39 cit.
6
Preventing heat-related deaths: The urgent need for a global early warning system for heat
PLOS Climate|2024
33 cit.
7
Effects of ambient heat exposure on risk of all-cause mortality in children younger than 5 years in Africa: a pooled time-series analysis
The Lancet Planetary Health|2024
28 cit.
8
Publication in PLOS Climate (2025) [9 citations, W4406730619]
PLOS Climate|2025
9 cit.
9
Coping with climate anxiety: impacts on functioning in Australian adolescents
Australian Psychologist|2024
8 cit.
10
Publication in Exposome (2024) [4 citations, W4403454914]
Exposome|2024
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Sophie C. Lewis
University of Canberra
2
Rachel C. Nethery
Harvard University
3
Trevor Houser
Rhodium Group (United States)
4
Hualiang Lin
Sun Yat-sen University
5
Joan Ballester
Barcelona Institute for Global Health
6
Hicham Achebak
Inserm
7
Christopher Wolf
Oregon State University
8
Hong Chen
University of Toronto
9
Biljana Macura
Stockholm Environment Institute
10
Junchao Duan
Third Way

Papers

1
Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022
Nature Medicine|2023
935 cit.
2
Risk/benefit tradeoff of habitual physical activity and air pollution on chronic pulmonary obstructive disease: findings from a large prospective cohort study
BMC Medicine|2022
151 cit.
3
Silica nanoparticles induce pyroptosis and cardiac hypertrophy via ROS/NLRP3/Caspase-1 pathway
Free Radical Biology and Medicine|2022
139 cit.
4
Exposure to Air Pollution during Pre-Hypertension and Subsequent Hypertension, Cardiovascular Disease, and Death: A Trajectory Analysis of the UK Biobank Cohort
Environmental Health Perspectives|2023
126 cit.
5
Ambient air pollution associated with incidence and dynamic progression of type 2 diabetes: a trajectory analysis of a population-based cohort
BMC Medicine|2022
122 cit.
6
Heat-related mortality in Europe during 2023 and the role of adaptation in protecting health
Nature Medicine|2024
110 cit.
7
Ranking age-specific modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease and mortality: evidence from a population-based longitudinal study
EClinicalMedicine|2023
98 cit.
8
Relation of Life’s Essential 8 to the genetic predisposition for cardiovascular outcomes and all-cause mortality: results from a national prospective cohort
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology|2023
97 cit.
9
Size-dependent toxicity of polystyrene microplastics on the gastrointestinal tract: Oxidative stress related-DNA damage and potential carcinogenicity
The Science of The Total Environment|2023
85 cit.
10
Population exposure to multiple air pollutants and its compound episodes in Europe
Nature Communications|2024
77 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Joel Schwartz
Harvard University
2
Haidong Kan
Fudan University
3
Yuming Guo
Monash Health
4
Sebastian Taylor
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
5
Ben Armstrong
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
6
Andrea Pozzer
Cyprus Institute
7
Michelle L. Bell
Yale University
8
Gerald A. Meehl
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
9
Jean‐François Lamarque
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
10
Shilu Tong
Queensland University of Technology

Papers

1
An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society|2011
14.7k cit.
2
Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health
The Lancet|2008
7.9k cit.
3
The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale
Nature|2015
6.1k cit.
4
Epidemiology of COVID-19 Among Children in China
PEDIATRICS|2020
4.3k cit.
5
More Intense, More Frequent, and Longer Lasting Heat Waves in the 21st Century
Science|2004
4.3k cit.
6
THE WCRP CMIP3 Multimodel Dataset: A New Era in Climate Change Research
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society|2007
2.9k cit.
7
Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study
The Lancet|2015
2.9k cit.
8
Historical (1850–2000) gridded anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of reactive gases and aerosols: methodology and application
Atmospheric chemistry and physics|2010
2.4k cit.
9
Ambient Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality in 652 Cities
New England Journal of Medicine|2019
1.7k cit.
10
Is Daily Mortality Associated Specifically with Fine Particles?
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association|1996
1.6k cit.

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