Paul Epstein

Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H., is associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and is a medical doctor trained in tropical public health. He co-authored the book Changing Planet, Changing Health.

Solving Climate Change: We Need a Tax on Currency Transactions

Solving Climate Change: We Need a Tax on Currency Transactions

A tax of just 0.075 percent on only currency transactions in dealer markets would yield the $500 billion needed to rebuild our systems More »

Food Security and Climate Change: The True Cost of Carbon

Food Security and Climate Change: The True Cost of Carbon

With wheat prices surging as major producers are hit by droughts and other extreme weather events, it's costing everyone more to eat More »

Health and Climate Change: 7 Ways You Are Being Harmed

Health and Climate Change: 7 Ways You Are Being Harmed

From the increase in frequency of heatwaves to the spread of infectious diseases, changing weather patterns are already affecting us all More »

An Era of Tornadoes: How Global Warming Causes Wild Winds

An Era of Tornadoes: How Global Warming Causes Wild Winds

Destruction in Missouri and elsewhere offers a taste of increasingly extreme weather. Part one in a four-part series on climate change. More »

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