KU Researchers to Analyze How Climate Change Intersects with Race, Inequality, Health Outcomes

 As climate change causes extreme temperatures, droughts, poor air quality, flooding and sea level rise, health outcomes for people living in affected areas suffer. Researchers at the University of Kansas are launching a new effort to determine how climate change interacts with health inequity in communities with high levels of segregation, economic and social disadvantages.

The County Health Ranking and Road Map Project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded KU a one-year, $100,000 grant to analyze and compare publicly available data on climate disasters with county health outcome data in the United States. In a country as large as the U.S., climate change affects varying regions differently. 

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