Climate & health: data & modelling tools for climate sensitive health outcomes

"Climate & health: data & modelling tools for climate-sensitive health outcomes"

This panel outlines a number of research projects and initiatives to improve data and indicators as well as model the interactions at the interface of climate and climate-sensitive diseases.

With the following speakers and presentations:

Introduction to the Global Health Resilience Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
Dr Bruno Carvalho (Recognised Researcher, Global Health Resilience Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, BSC-CNS)

The Lancet Countdown in Europe
Dr Kim van Daalen (BSC-CNS & The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change)

Tracking changes in climatic suitability for Leishmaniasis in Europe
Dr Bruno Carvalho (Recognised Researcher, Global Health Resilience Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, BSC-CNS)

Short-term effect of temperature and rainfall on the incidence of West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease in Europe: a multi-country case-crossover analysis
Dr Giovenale Moirano (Visiting Research Fellow at the Global Health Resilience Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, BSC-CNS)

Disease and climate data fusion for modelling: an application case for Brazil
Dr Raphael Saldanha (Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Numérique)
Forecasting infectious disease outbreaks across Latin America and the Caribbean in response to the 2023/24 El Niño event

Chloe Fletcher (PhD Student in Climate Change Epidemiology, Global Health Resilience Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, BSC-CNS)

Recorded online on Nov 22nd 2023, as part of the ISNTD Climate and Health conference