Speaker: Rachel Baker, John and Elizabeth Irving Family Assistant Professor of Climate Health, Brown University
The climate is expected to play a driving role in the transmission of many infectious diseases with implications for climate change. However, the impact of the climate on directly-transmitted diseases i.e. diseases that spread directly person-to-person, such as COVID19 and influenza, has been less well studied.
In this talk, Baker will discuss statistical inference, mechanistic modeling and climate change projections to characterize the climate drivers of directly-transmitted disease outbreaks, and explore the future risk from climate change, while accounting for variability and uncertainty.
This seminar can also be viewed via our live stream.
Hosted by the Climate, People and the Environment Program (CPEP).