How can clinicians respond to the health challenges associated with global climate change? This month on Ethics Talk, we learn about how art can communicate the health effects of climate change, the challenges that hot and humid days pose for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and what the global health risk of climate change means for individual clinicians.

Dr Madeline Ward joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Why We Need to Stop Labeling Behaviors Influencing a Person’s Weight Ideal or Healthy."

Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Fat Norms and the AMA.”

AMA Journal of Ethics editor Audiey Kao, MD, PhD, interviewed Richard Pan, MD, MPH, about how, as a physician and legislator, he seeks to protect public health in light of recurrent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases.

Dr Lauren Hale joins Ethics Talk to discuss sleep health and help us learn how we can all sleep better.

Dr Erica Kaufman West joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Which Factors Matter Most When Using Vaccines to Combat Zoonoses?”

Dr Jake Young joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: "How Should Wet Market Practices Be Regulated to Curb Zoonotic Disease Transmission?”

Dr Gregory C. Gray joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Laura A. Pulscher and Hisham O. Alsharif: “Five Things Clinicians Need to Know About Zoonotic Viral Spillover and Spillback.”

Dr Vivek H. Murthy joins Ethics Talk to discuss loneliness as a public health threat and the connection between loneliness, public health responsiveness, and the health of our democracy.

Dr Amy E. Wendling joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “On Health and Loneliness.”