How (in)visible are the health impacts of climate change?

This paper scrutinizes the assertion that knowledge gaps concerning health risks from climate change are unjust,and must be addressed, because they hinder evidence-led interventions to protect vulnerable populations. First,we construct a taxonomy of six inter-related forms of invisibility (social marginalization, forced invisibility bymigrants, spatial marginalization, neglected diseases, mental health, uneven climatic monitoring and fore-casting) which underlie systematic biases in current understanding of these risks in Latin America, and advocatean approach to climate-health research that draws on intersectionality theory to address these inter-relations. Wepropose that these invisibilities should be understood as outcomes of structural imbalances in power and re-sources rather than as haphazard blindspots in scientific and state knowledge. Our thesis, drawing on theories ofgovernmentality, is that context-dependent tensions condition whether or not benefits of making vulnerablepop