Climate Change and Extreme Heat Events: How Health Systems Should Prepare

[1 ]Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

[2 ]Deputy Executive Director, Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

[3 ]Assistant Professor, Jointly Appointed in the Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis School of Medicine, and Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA

[4 ]Director, Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

[5 ]Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine and Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

[6 ]Assistant Director, Emergency Management Systems, Greater New York Hospital Association, New York, New York, USA

[7 ]Director, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

[8 ]Senior Director of Clinical Research, Division of Hospital Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

[9 ]Professor and Division Head, Pediatrics Department, AMC MET Medical College, LG, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

[10 ]Adjunct Professor and Director, Climate Change Communications and Strategy, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

[11 ]Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Emergency Medicine, UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California, USA