Q&A: Professor discusses climate change’s negative effects on mental health

Associate professor and clinical psychologist, Sarah Lowe’s research centers on the long-term mental health consequences of traumatic and stressful life events that affect individuals and communities, including those related to climate change. In a recent study published in Nature Mental Health, Lowe, associate professor of public health (social and behavioral sciences) and psychiatry, and her colleagues from other universities, conducted a systematic review of the link between slow-onset or chronic climate change and mental health.