Aussie health experts call for action to minimise climate change harm

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The Australian global health community needs to step up to minimise the impact of climate change on the health of vulnerable communities, according to an editorial from the Australian Global Health Alliance. Experts from the alliance outline how the health impacts of climate change are set to kill hundreds of thousands, with low and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific region set to bear the brunt. The researchers give a series of recommendations for addressing the growing combined crisis of climate change and health, including action on fossil fuels, amplifying Pacific and Indigenous perspectives and supporting the current and future healthcare workforce across the Asia-Pacific region to prepare for what's ahead.