VOLUME X, NO. 1 SPECIAL ISSUE 2020   Climate Change and Global Health Security: An Overview of the Scope and Issues Robert L. Ostergard, Jr. and Nicholas Seltzer Elevating the Status of Health in Global Environmental Politics: Securitizing the Nexus between Health and Climate Change Geoffrey B. Cockerham Is Climate Change Hampering Global Health Security ..read more

By Robert L. Ostergard, Jr. and Nicholas Seltzer The links between climate change and health security have been under investigation for decades. However, at its core, linking climate change to health security faces a number of complex obstacles, most of which are linked to the indirect nature and the temporal challenges in the relationship. This ..read more

By Geoffrey B. Cockerham Considerations of health have received little notice in international climate change negotiations and agreements. To address this issue, the nexus between climate change and health in global politics should be strengthened. I argue that this can be accomplished by: (1) adopting a strategy based on the securitization of the relationship between ..read more

By Andrew Defor and Theresa Valerie Oheneba-Dornyo The impact of climate change on human health is becoming increasingly evident. Several studies have linked disease outbreaks to climate change within the last decade, re-affirming the threat of climate change to human health and global health security. Although there has been an overwhelming response to climate change ..read more

By Summer Marion While health and climate science recognize a clear linkage between infectious diseases and effects of climate change, outbreaks and disasters are frequently framed as standalone crises in public discourse. Drawing on public policy image framing literature, this paper examines effects of crossover in climate change and infectious disease discourse on policy outcomes ..read more

By Yara M. Asi The needs of fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS) are usually framed in terms of humanitarian or security aims. As a result, health security in FCAS is poor. Yet in the background of these competing forces is the approaching threat of climate change. This paper will evaluate the impact of climate change ..read more

By Kelly F. Austin, Mark D. Noble, and Laura A. McKinney HIV/AIDS remains a serious public health threat in less-developed countries, especially for women. Drawing on ecofeminist perspectives, we explore linkages between climate-related disasters, food insecurity, and HIV transmission. Using data from over 90 less-developed countries, we construct a structural equation model to analyze the ..read more

By Destini M. Garrison, Radina P. Soebiyanto, Sarah Hutchinson, Assaf Anyamba and Tomoko Y. Steen The Republic of Yemen has concurrently fallen victim to political and climatic disruptions causing the largest cholera epidemic. Recent conditions in Yemen provide a perfect paradigm of how conflict and climate magnify public health system insecurities, generating infectious disease outbreaks ..read more

By Sebastian Kevany The Solomon Islands, as with many resource poor settings, faces multiple direct and indirect threats to public health. These include environmental, population, health security and globalization considerations; similarly, a range of ostensibly non-health issues such as the development of squatter camps in urban centres such as Honiara, inter-island migration, and climate change ..read more

By Thomas Lange What role can regions, or more precisely regional organizations, play in the further development of international health and climate policy? If one shifts the view from the global system to regional spaces, it becomes clear that the development of International Health and Climate Governance is strongly influenced by regional activities. However, regional ..read more