Mental Health Impacts of Living in Climate Vulnerable Areas in Coastal NC

Locations
USA
Project leads / PIs
  • Sumi Ariely
  • Diana Silimperi
  • Christine Gray
Partners
Pamlico County Disaster Recovery and Relief Coalition
More Information

Mental Health Impacts of Living in Climate Vulnerable Areas in Coastal NC Project Leads: Sumi Ariely, PhD; Chris Gray, PhD; Diana Silimperi, MD

Project overview

Environmental disasters pose immediate and long term threats to both physical and mental health. Even after the immediate impacts of weather events are over, mental and physical health effects continue. Through, health screenings, interviews, focus groups, of health workers, community leaders and community residents, and use of secondary data sets, this work documents the mental health needs of populations who live in climate risk zones, and identifies risk and protective factors that can be leveraged to create interventions.

Related publications