Blood under pressure: how climate change threatens blood safety and supply chains

Elvina Viennet; Melinda Dean; Jorga Kircher; Karin Leder; Yuming Guo; Phoebe Jones; Helen Faddy

doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(25)00051-8

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Blood under pressure: how climate change threatens blood safety and supply chains

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Blood under pressure: how climate change threatens blood safety and supply chains

Elvina Viennet, Melinda Dean, Jorga Kircher, Karin Leder, Yuming Guo, Phoebe Jones and Helen Faddy

The Lancet Planetary Health, Vol.9(4), pp.E304-E313

2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(25)00051-8

PMID: 40252677

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Climate change substantially threatens public health, including the blood supply chain, which is crucial for medical treatments such as surgeries, trauma care, and chronic disease management. Extreme weather events, vector-borne disease shifts, and temperature fluctuations can disrupt blood collection, testing, transport, and storage, threatening both the safety and sufficiency of blood products. Although studies have highlighted some connections between climate change, transfusion-transmissible infections, and blood safety, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding of the climate effects on each supply chain stage. In this Personal View, we address the potential climate-driven challenges across the blood supply chain, from donor health to blood component stability, emphasising the importance of proactive measures. To protect the availability and safety of blood supplies in an evolving climate, further research and adaptive strategies are needed to build a resilient blood supply system that can withstand emerging climate-related disruptions.

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Title: Blood under pressure: how climate change threatens blood safety and supply chains
Authors: Elvina Viennet (Corresponding Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Melinda Dean - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Biomedicine
Jorga Kircher - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Biomedicine
Karin Leder - Monash University
Yuming Guo - Monash University
Phoebe Jones - Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
Helen Faddy - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Biomedicine
Publication details: The Lancet Planetary Health, Vol.9(4), pp.E304-E313
Publisher: The Lancet Publishing Group
Date published: 2025
DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(25)00051-8
ISSN: 2542-5196
PMID: 40252677
Copyright note: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Organisation Unit: School of Health - Biomedicine; School of Health
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991122152602621
Output Type: Journal article