摘要Climate change is one of the biggest issues facing humanity.Governments,private sectors,nongovernmental organizations,and individuals are work-ing daily to find solutions to counter and mitigate its influence.An underdis-cussed issue is the effect that climate has on health,and the impact that environmental and atmospheric change can have on communities,medical care access,and ecology.Here,Alan Dangour from the Wellcome Trust me-diates a discussion between George Fu Gao,hLife Editor-in-Chief,and the former Director-General of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Preven-tion,Desta Lakewfrom African Medical and Research Foundation,and Alaa Murabitfrom the Gates Foundation,on this area of health and climate.They discuss how a changing climate can affect health,the work that has already been done to address these problems,and the innovations and steps that need to be made to fully tackle climate-related health issues,with a consensus that health should be at the center of all considerations.