Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.

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Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call.

Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Jura Agostinovichis about the impacts that

climate change has and will continue to have on mental health. Let's listen. Yora Agostinovichis,

thanks so much for joining me. It's a pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me. So today I have you

here to talk about climate change and mental health. And I want to

read a sentence from a report that you recently co-authored. And it says climate change,

if left unaddressed, is projected to have catastrophic consequences on the mental health

of entire populations.

So tell me more about that.

Well, maybe it would help to kind of start with a few of the different kind of ways that we know that climate change is impacting mental health.

So, you know, we tend to think about the climate change and mental health literature that

exists in terms of exposure.

And so that means exposure to climate change related events or phenomena.

And the exposure where we have sort of the most information at the moment is on the mental

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