Contents

• Acknowledgments
• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW
  • Greenhouse Warming
  • Ozone Depletion
• POTENTIAL HUMAN HEALTH EFFECTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Infectious Disease
  • Direct Effects on Human Health
  • Indirect Effects on Human Health
• POLICY IMPLICATIONS
  • Panel Reports
• SUMMARY OF PRIORITIES AND STRATEGIES
• References and Further Reading
• APPENDIX A National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Sponsoring Members, Interagency Working Group, Institute of Medicine (IOM) Steering Committee, and Staff
• APPENDIX B Conference Agenda
• APPENDIX C Speakers, Authors, Chairs, and Conference Registrants
• APPENDIX D Abstracts of Conference Presentations

Funding for the conference was provided by the National Academy of Sciences, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Department of Agriculture, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Agency for International Development, and the Department of Energy.

NOTICE: The conference that is the subject of this summary was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors according to procedures approved by a Report Review Committee consisting of members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

The Institute of Medicine was chartered in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to enlist distinguished members of the appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. In this, the Institute acts under both the Academy's 1863 congressional charter responsibility to be an adviser to the federal government and its own initiative, to identify issues of medical care, research, and education. Dr. Kenneth I. Shine is president of the Institute of Medicine.