Nitin Agarwala, Semion Polinov Abstract Public health emergencies such as pandemics and epidemics have been affecting human life for many years. Many of these health emergencies forced humans to make radical improvements in the then existing health and safety standards and improve their living conditions and ultimately come out stronger to continue business as usual. However, a public-health-emergency-in-waiting, climate change, may completely change the demographics and future of humans if changes are not made to the existing business-as-usual model. Although humans have the resilience to combat any public health emergency, climate change is one health emergency that has a slow impact and has the potential to create a complex challenge…