Howard Frumkin
@howardfrumkin.bsky.social
I'm a physician & epidemiologist focused on environmental health. I study how planetary changes such as climate change, the natural world, and the built environment affect our health and well-being, and how to protect both the planet and ourselves
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The sooner we stop denying the impact of #climatechange on our health, the healthier we will be.
Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change theconversation.com/want-to-make... by @jonlevybu.bsky.social @jonathanpatz.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @us.theconversation.com
Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change theconversation.com/want-to-make... by @jonlevybu.bsky.social @jonathanpatz.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @us.theconversation.com
Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change
From extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses, climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Health scientists explain what individuals and governments can do about it.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The sooner we stop denying the impact of #climatechange on our health, the healthier we will be.
Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change theconversation.com/want-to-make... by @jonlevybu.bsky.social @jonathanpatz.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @us.theconversation.com
Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change theconversation.com/want-to-make... by @jonlevybu.bsky.social @jonathanpatz.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @us.theconversation.com
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Amen! Climate and health strategies must address the biodiversity crisis. This insight is a key driver behind the planetaryhealthalliance.org movement.
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Climate and health strategies must address the biodiversity crisis
Safeguarding biodiversity is not simply an environmental concern but a foundational element of preventive and clinical care.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Amen! Climate and health strategies must address the biodiversity crisis. This insight is a key driver behind the planetaryhealthalliance.org movement.
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@cwalzer.bsky.social
@statnews.com
@nationalacademies.org
@howardfrumkin.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@cwalzer.bsky.social
@statnews.com
@nationalacademies.org
@howardfrumkin.bsky.social
This impressive and sobering analysis documents (conservatively) the dreadful human impacts of rolling back environmental regulations. Congratulations to the AP team.
Speak up for protecting our health and our environment!
apnews.com/article/epa-...
Speak up for protecting our health and our environment!
apnews.com/article/epa-...
Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives
When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.
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June 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This impressive and sobering analysis documents (conservatively) the dreadful human impacts of rolling back environmental regulations. Congratulations to the AP team.
Speak up for protecting our health and our environment!
apnews.com/article/epa-...
Speak up for protecting our health and our environment!
apnews.com/article/epa-...
The Stockholm Declaration on Chemistry for the Future, released 10 days ago, now has almost 1000 signers. It's a visionary call for a "new chemistry for sustainability" that will protect people, prosperity, and the planet. I signed. Will you?
www.stockholm-declaration.org
www.stockholm-declaration.org
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June 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The Stockholm Declaration on Chemistry for the Future, released 10 days ago, now has almost 1000 signers. It's a visionary call for a "new chemistry for sustainability" that will protect people, prosperity, and the planet. I signed. Will you?
www.stockholm-declaration.org
www.stockholm-declaration.org
Beautiful essay by @dralicechen.bsky.social and @drvivekmurthy.bsky.social.
"Societies ... require people who are willing to speak up boldly and unapologetically for the dignity and well-being of others. Physicians have the power to be these people."
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"Societies ... require people who are willing to speak up boldly and unapologetically for the dignity and well-being of others. Physicians have the power to be these people."
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
The Power of Physicians in Dangerous Times | NEJM
The current crisis in the United States is bigger than politics, and it deeply affects
the health and lives of our patients and communities. Now is the time for physicians
to harness their power an...
www.nejm.org
May 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Beautiful essay by @dralicechen.bsky.social and @drvivekmurthy.bsky.social.
"Societies ... require people who are willing to speak up boldly and unapologetically for the dignity and well-being of others. Physicians have the power to be these people."
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
"Societies ... require people who are willing to speak up boldly and unapologetically for the dignity and well-being of others. Physicians have the power to be these people."
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
This report documents further devastation of climate and health research at NIH. Among other responses, we need to be planning to restart such critical research once this madness ends--as it will.
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: documents reveal how NIH will axe climate studies
US agency guidelines nix funding for studies on climate anxiety and more but allow it for those on extreme weather and health.
www.nature.com
May 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This report documents further devastation of climate and health research at NIH. Among other responses, we need to be planning to restart such critical research once this madness ends--as it will.
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Glad to share this short paper, just published, describing work at the National Academy of Medicine to promote broad system change (beyond the health sector) to confront climate change.
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www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Charting a path to health for all at net-zero emissions
Climate change is the defining health challenge of the 21st century, with record-breaking
temperatures and extreme weather events already exacting an unprecedented toll on
human health and wellbeing. ...
www.thelancet.com
April 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Glad to share this short paper, just published, describing work at the National Academy of Medicine to promote broad system change (beyond the health sector) to confront climate change.
@thirdactorg.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @maibached.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@thirdactorg.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @maibached.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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What did scientists (who care deeply about leaving a livable world to our children & grandchildren) do when a cheap political stunt derailed their efforts to help? They built a workaround. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o... @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @mason4c.bsky.social
Opinion | We Found a Work Around to Trump Defunding Science
When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
What did scientists (who care deeply about leaving a livable world to our children & grandchildren) do when a cheap political stunt derailed their efforts to help? They built a workaround. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o... @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @mason4c.bsky.social
Compelling article making the scientific case for legal liability of major fossil fuel companies.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Compelling article making the scientific case for legal liability of major fossil fuel companies.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What a treat to hear the great Rita Colwell recount the story of Vibrio, human health, and climate here at UW School of Public Health.
April 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
What a treat to hear the great Rita Colwell recount the story of Vibrio, human health, and climate here at UW School of Public Health.
I never imagined a world in which, when an HHS Secretary states that vaccines are the most effective way to prevent measles, it counts as news. A bit like NASA confirming the theory of gravity.
www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/r...
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April 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I never imagined a world in which, when an HHS Secretary states that vaccines are the most effective way to prevent measles, it counts as news. A bit like NASA confirming the theory of gravity.
www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/r...
www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/r...
Looking forward to joining Hannah Murphy Winter of @thestranger.com, Mickey Fearn, Ashley Townes, and Joycelyn Chui for a wonderful Earth Day event at @townhallseattle.bsky.social. We'll be talking about climate equity, park equity, health equity, and the connections among them.
March 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Looking forward to joining Hannah Murphy Winter of @thestranger.com, Mickey Fearn, Ashley Townes, and Joycelyn Chui for a wonderful Earth Day event at @townhallseattle.bsky.social. We'll be talking about climate equity, park equity, health equity, and the connections among them.
An incisive commentary about a gut-wrenching moment in US history.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
It Was an Ambush
Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
www.theatlantic.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
An incisive commentary about a gut-wrenching moment in US history.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Our latest survey finds that Americans are becoming increasingly aware that climate change harms people's health. Check out our full report: www.climatechangecommunication.org/all/climate-... @docsforclimate.bsky.social @lisapatel.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
Climate Change in the American Mind: Public Perceptions of the Health Harms of Global Warming, Fall 2024 - Center for Climate Change Communication
Report Summary This report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey – Climate Change in the American Mind – conducted jointly by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication an...
www.climatechangecommunication.org
February 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Our latest survey finds that Americans are becoming increasingly aware that climate change harms people's health. Check out our full report: www.climatechangecommunication.org/all/climate-... @docsforclimate.bsky.social @lisapatel.bsky.social @howardfrumkin.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
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Shutting down existing EV charging hardware, which has already been paid for, is the definition of government waste.
But I don't hear DOGE doing anything about this… 🙄
electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...
But I don't hear DOGE doing anything about this… 🙄
electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...
Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings
The Trump administration is shutting down all federal government buildings' EV chargers and expected to sell off the GSA's newly bought EVs.
electrek.co
February 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Shutting down existing EV charging hardware, which has already been paid for, is the definition of government waste.
But I don't hear DOGE doing anything about this… 🙄
electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...
But I don't hear DOGE doing anything about this… 🙄
electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...
Had the honor and pleasure of coffee with the phenomenal @govjayinslee.bsky.social today. We talked about standing with science, communicating the climate crisis, resisting the abuses and lies of the administration. Then we both biked home!
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@docsforclimate.bsky.social @thirdactorg.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Had the honor and pleasure of coffee with the phenomenal @govjayinslee.bsky.social today. We talked about standing with science, communicating the climate crisis, resisting the abuses and lies of the administration. Then we both biked home!
@docsforclimate.bsky.social @thirdactorg.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social @thirdactorg.bsky.social
Wow. The PubMed site is down. Is this just a temporary glitch or have they killed it too?
February 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Wow. The PubMed site is down. Is this just a temporary glitch or have they killed it too?
When @govjayinslee.bsky.social lends his support, you know you're doing something right!
In the best tradition of Copernicus and Galileo, our courageous scientists are enlightening the public about our environment, undaunted by Trump’s attempted suppression. Courage is contagious.
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February 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
When @govjayinslee.bsky.social lends his support, you know you're doing something right!
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As I shared last week, the US's first National Nature Assessment has been shut down: but the authors, led by @phillevin.bsky.social, are determined to continue. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...
Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. (Gift Article)
The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As I shared last week, the US's first National Nature Assessment has been shut down: but the authors, led by @phillevin.bsky.social, are determined to continue. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...