Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 04/2009

The sting of climate change

Sarah Potter

November 2008

Lowy Institute for International Policy

Abstract

Climate change is not only affecting where people live and prosper but also where mosquitoes do. This is bad news for northern Australia and Australia's northern neighbours. In a new policy brief, Dr Sarah Potter, a malaria research scientist, analyses how climate change will likely affect the spread of malaria and dengue in maritime Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands and how Australia itself is at greater risk of outbreaks of these diseases.