Michelle Barry on Elevating Women Leaders in Climate and Health
Women's health may be a hot-button issue in the US, but "little to none of it addresses this nexus of women's health and climate," says Michele Barry, a professor of medicine and director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Global Health at Boston University.
That's why she's calling on the Obama administration to reinstate a rule that requires federal agencies to study the effects of climate change on women's health, the Boston Globe reports.
Barry, who's also the author of a new book on women's health, says it's time to "empower women as leaders in both global health and climate and health."
Barry's call for more research into the impact of climate change on women's health came in an op-ed for the Globe, which notes that climate change is already having an impact on women's health around the world.
In the US, for example, the Center for Infectious Diseases and Global Health reports that women are more likely than men to be infected with HIV, have a higher rate of breast cancer, and are more likely to die early from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth.
Barry says the new rule, which was put in place by former President George W.
Bush, would have
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