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Federal Scientists, a Great American Invention: A Letter to Our Federal Colleagues

Co-authored by Josh Lawler, PhD, co-director of the Center

A recent analysis by Science found that 10,109 PhDs in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and health fields in the US federal government voluntarily left or involuntarily lost (collectively hereafter, “departed from”) their jobs in 2025. 

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The left side of the photo shows a clearcut forest in a long-tern drought. The right side shows a forest regrowing.
Want to Make America Healthy Again? Stop Fueling Climate Change

The Conversation · November 12, 2025
Co-Authored by Dr. Howard Frumkin, Steering Committee member and researcher

If you’ve been following recent debates about health, you’ve been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts and health insurance costs – but much less about one of the greatest threats to global public health: climate change. 

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OPINION: Cli-Fi—Helping us Manage a Crisis

BMJ · October 3, 2024
Authored by Dr. Howard Frumkin, Steering Committee member and researcher

Reading fiction is one of the sublime ways to experience art. Stories engage us, absorb us, and stay with us.1 The reader may be transported cognitively and emotionally, and experience images more vivid than those in real life.2 This can be transformative; a compelling narrative may change a reader’s point of view.3 Fiction is “the mind’s flight simulator,” according to novelist and psychologist Keith Oatley,4 helping us understand both our own minds and the world’s complexity. 

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OP-ED: The Climate Crisis is a Mental Health Crisis. Building Smart-Surface Public Spaces is an Easy Prescription

By Greg Kats, Howard Frumkin, and Georges C. Benjamin · Amsterdam News · August 15, 2024
Co-Authored by Howard Frumkin, Steering Committee member and researcher

As the Conference of the Parties (COP) 28 closed with much fanfare and a first-time “transition away” from fossil fuels commitment that’s drawing skeptics, here’s what we do know: The planet we live on and need survival for is getting hotter. 

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Health Professionals and the Climate Crisis: Trusted Voices, Essential Roles

By Edward Maibach, Howard Frumkin, Samantha Ahdoot · World Medical & Health Policy · March 3, 2021
Co-authored by Dr. Howard Frumkin, Steering Committee member and researcher
Climate change has triggered a global public health emergency that, unless adequately addressed, is likely to become a multigenerational public health catastrophe. 

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