{"id":110,"date":"2019-07-20T21:41:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T21:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=110"},"modified":"2020-05-27T17:31:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T17:31:44","slug":"unes-meaghan-daly-co-authors-report-on-health-and-climate-change-in-the-lancet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/unes-meaghan-daly-co-authors-report-on-health-and-climate-change-in-the-lancet\/","title":{"rendered":"UNE’s Meaghan Daly co-authors report on health and climate change in The Lancet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Meaghan Daly, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It is recognized that climate change will have significant\nimpacts on human health around the globe \u2013 ranging from changes in the\nfrequency of heat waves, to shifts in vector-borne diseases, to increasing food\ninsecurity \u2013 with the worst of these impacts expected to affect already\nvulnerable populations. Yet, to date, little attention has been directed toward\nunderstanding broader relationships between climate change and health at the\nglobal scale, as well as how societies can respond to this growing risk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To address this gap in knowledge, a group of 55 researchers, including Dr. Meaghan Daly, an assistant professor in Environmental Studies at the University of New England, have been working to systematically examine trends in climate change and human health. In December, the group authored the \u201c<\/em>2018 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change<\/a>\u201d which was published in the medical journal, The Lancet<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lancet <\/em>report\nis part of ongoing efforts by Daly and colleagues to assess climate change\ncoverage in the media. Daly is a member of the Media\nand Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO)<\/a> research group, which is based at\nthe University of Colorado Boulder. The group monitors 79 media sources (across\nnewspapers, radio and TV) in 39 countries to produce open access summaries and\ndatasets assessing climate change media coverage on a monthly basis. The\ngroup\u2019s work has been featured in over 100 news articles in 2018 alone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their contributions to the Lancet <\/em>report specifically examined trends in newspaper coverage of\nclimate change and health in 7 regions around the globe, as part of broader\ntracking of public and political engagement with climate change and health. The\ngroup found that media coverage of climate change and health is increasing\nglobally, but that such trends are not observed equally across all regions. For\nexample, Asia has seen a larger uptick in coverage than other regions. The\nreport was included as one of the top-25\nclimate research papers featured in the media in 2018<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Daly, \u201cthis type of interdisciplinary and\nglobal collaboration is what is needed to understand the complex and growing\nimpacts of climate change on human and societal well-being. It has been\nexciting to be part of such a diverse, international team to work on multiple\nfacets of this vital issue.\u201d Dr. Max Boykoff, Associate Professor in\nEnvironmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and Principal\nInvestigator for the project, noted that \u201cclimate change is not just an\nenvironmental issue, rather it is one involving science, policy, culture,\npsychology, environment and society. Confronting climate change and\nsustainability gets to the heart of how we live, work, play and relax in modern\nlife. Media serve as critical bridges between public discourse and\nscience-policy interactions regarding contemporary climate challenges.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daly and colleagues are currently conducting data collection\nand analysis to contribute toward an update of the 2017 report, which will be\nreleased in December 2019. Building on this work, Daly plans to teach a course\non climate change and the media at UNE in the future, where students will\ncreate independent projects to analyze climate change media coverage data sets.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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