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Climate Change and Human Health in Montana
A Special Report of the Montana Climate Assessment
January 2021
Alexandra Adams1, Robert Byron2, Bruce Maxwell3, Susan Higgins4, Margaret Eggers5, Lori Byron6, Cathy Whitlock7
1 Director and Principal Investigator, Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
2 MD, MPH
Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate
Hardin, MT
3 Professor of Agroecology and Applied Plant Ecology, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Science, and co-Director of the Montana Institute on Ecosystems
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
4 Community Research Associate, Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity and Montana INBRE
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
5 MA, MS, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Health, and Associate Director, Environmental Health Program, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
6 MD, MS, FAAP
SCL Health, Retired Indian Health Service
Hardin MT
7 Regents Professor in Earth Sciences, and Fellow of the Montana Institute on Ecosystems
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
This report is funded by a grant from the Montana Healthcare Foundation. Additional support is provided by the National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Cooperative Agreement #EPS-110134, and by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award #P20GM104417 to the Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity at Montana State University. Any opinions, findings, statements, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed in this report are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of these funding organizations.
Climate Change and Human Health in Montana: A Special Report of the Montana Climate Assessment, is available in digital format at www.montanaclimate.org.
Madison Boone of Montana State University’s Institute on Ecosystems served as Project Manager for this report. Scott Bischke of MountainWorks Inc. (www.emountainworks.com) served as the science editor for the report, as well as print-copy designer and website developer.
Front cover photo from iStock by Getty Images. Photos throughout the report are credited, with the authors’ great thanks to the photographers. Photos in this report without credit come from sources requiring no attribution.
Please cite this publication as:
Adams A, Byron R, Maxwell B, Higgins S, Eggers M, Byron L, Whitlock C. 2021. Climate change and human health in Montana: a special report of the Montana Climate Assessment. Bozeman MT: Montana State University, Institute on Ecosystems, Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity. 216 p. https://doi.org/10.15788/c2h22021.