Educational Resource Hub
This crowd-sourced database of educational resources is meant to encompass any tools relevant to people working in the climate and health space. This might include submissions by the content authors themselves, or simply recommendations from community members for resources they have found helpful. This collection includes only links directing users to existing resources - it is not meant to house or archive content.
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Assessing hurricane exposure for epidemiological research: Focus on exposure to tropical cyclone–related winds
Speaker: Dr. Brooke Anderson - Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Colorado State University
While there are many hazards associated with tropical cyclones, in this session we'll focus on the hazard of high winds. We'll discuss how wind intensity can be measured for tropical cyclones and how this can be leveraged for exposure assessment for epidemiology studies. The principles apply with a variety of available datasets and wind field models. I will show examples from one set of R packages that my research group developed and made available.
For related materials, see the CAFE website.
Speakers:
- Arnab Gosh, Cornell University
- Jiahang He, Boston University
- Xuejuan Ning, Yale School of Public Health
- Szu Yu Lin, The University of Tokyo
- Michelle Evans, Pivot
- Elena Naumova, Tufts University
- Ryan Zomorrodi, University of Illinois Chicago
- Elizabeth Fussel, Brown University*
* We regret that we experienced technical difficulties and could not record Elizabeth Fussel’s presentation.
Speakers:
Dr. Arbor Quist, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, The Ohio State University
Dr. Shuai Wang, Assistant Professor of Meteorology, University of Delaware
Dr. Edwin Sumargo, Climate Scientist, MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Michael Souza, MEMA Agency Meteorologist
John Morales, Atmospheric and Environmental Scientist, Hurricane Specialist
This special edition of CAFE University features an expert panel, facilitated by Dr. Alexandra Heaney, Assistant Professor at University of California San Diego and Dr. Jennifer Head, Assistant Professor at University of Michigan.
Panel speakers:
Malia Ireland, DVM, MPH - Epidemiologist, Minnesota Department of Health
Martin Hönigl, MD - Associate Professor, Medical University of Graz
Asiya Gusa, PhD - Assistant Professor, Duke University School of Medicine
Amanda Weaver, PhD, MPH - University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Head, PhD, MPH - Assistant Professor, U of Michigan School of Public Health
Jane Sykes, PhD, MBA, MPH - Professor, University of California, Davis
This insightful panel presented how environmental impacts alter fungal pathogen biology and epidemiology, including impacts on food security, antifungal resistance, and disease surveillance. They also discussed current research gaps and proposed collaborative approaches to advance our knowledge.
(slides can be made available upon request to climatecafe@bu.edu)
Speaker: Dr. Rachel Lowe, ICREA Research Professor and Global Health Resilience Group leader at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center
(slides can be made available upon request to climatecafe@bu.edu)
Speakers:
Dr. Deborah Balk, Director of the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR) and Professor of Public Affairs in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College and at the Graduate Center (in the Sociology and Economics Programs) and School of Public Health at the City University of New York
Dr. Lori Hunter, Director of the Institute of Behavioral Science and Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder
(slides can be made available upon request to climatecafe@bu.edu)
Recent and projected future increases in the frequency and severity of wildfires are linked to more frequent and intense wildfire smoke episodes. Coinciding with these changes has been an increase in understanding of the population health impacts of wildfire smoke exposure. In this presentation Dr. Brauer provides an overview of epidemiologic studies evaluating wildfire smoke exposure health effects throughout the lifecourse and what these studies suggest for magnitude of impacts in North America and globally at present and to 2100 under different climate scenarios. In addition, Dr. Brauer summarizes exposure reduction and health protection measures and challenges in protecting populations now and in the future.Michael Brauer is a Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at The University of British Columbia and a Principal Research Scientist and Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, where he leads the Environmental, Occupational and Dietary Risk Factors team for the Global Burden of Disease.
(slides can be made available upon request to climatecafe@bu.edu)
Crowd-Sourced Climate Change and Health Educational Resources Collection Submission Form
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