School of Public Health09/23/2025 01:15:00 AMClimate change is more than an environmental crisis; it is a critical public health emergency. Rising heat, worsening air quality, and frequent floods fuel higher asthma rates, increasing heat-related illnesses, and straining hospital systems. Beyond these direct health effects, extreme weather events disrupt housing, energy, and food access, resulting in unemployment, lost wages, and destabilizing entire communities. The burden falls most heavily on vulnerable populations, deepening longstanding health disparities.Office of the President/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/09-23/09-tackling-climate-change.xmlResearchSchool of Public HealthSchool of Public Health