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On the Front Lines of Climate Health Effects in North Carolina

Lauren Thie and Kimberly Thigpen Tart
North Carolina Medical Journal September 2018, 79 (5) 318-323; DOI: https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.79.5.318
Lauren Thie
environmental program consultant, Division of Public Health, Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology Branch, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina
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  • For correspondence: lauren.thie@dhhs.nc.gov
Kimberly Thigpen Tart
health science policy analyst, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
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