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YIBS/ESC Friday Noon Seminar Series

 
Donnelley Environmental Fellows

 

 

 

Forum on Climate and Disease

Sponsored by
The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies'
Center for the Study of Global Change
& Center for EcoEpidemiology

 

Friday, December 9, 2005
Saturday, December 10, 2005

Yale University
Luce Hall Auditorium
34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT
 

  Global climate change and emerging disease threats are among the most pressing issues facing humankind. Much speculation has developed concerning the relationships between these events, but what is really known about cause and effect? This Forum addresses the current state of our knowledge on the relationship between climate and disease by bringing together a group of academic and government scientists with international experience in climate/disease research. A range of topics will be presented that demonstrate the need, capacity, and benefits of understanding how climate influences risk for infectious diseases in humans. The implementation of advanced technologies in disease surveillance and prediction based upon climate data will be demonstrated and discussed.

The objective is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for cross-fertilization among the disciplines of climatology, microbiology, epidemiology, and ecology, and to identify needs for advancing international efforts to mitigate disease risk caused by climate change. The forum seeks to examine the scientific evidence on climate impact upon human disease and to identify key areas for future research.

The Forum is co-sponsored by two centers of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies: the Center for the Study of Global Change and the Center for Eco-Epidemiology. This is the first interdisciplinary YIBS forum intended to bridge the natural and medical sciences in order to address a common issue.

The Forum was supported by funding from ExxonMobil.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPEAKERS
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TALKS
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Friday, December 9, 2005

 

Durland Fish, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Introduction and Overview
http://media.med.yale.edu/meta/YIBS/Fish.ram

 

 

 

Richard Spinrad, Assistant Administrator of NOAA, Washington, DC

Health Agenda for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
http://media.med.yale.edu/meta/YIBS/spinrad.ram

 

 

David Rogers, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Predicting malaria with climate and satellite data
http://media.med.yale.edu/meta/YIBS/rogers.ram


 

 

Duane Gubler, Dept. of Tropical Medicine and Medical Microbiology,  University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

Climate and dengue fever
http://media.med.yale.edu/meta/YIBS/gubler.ram

Saturday, December 10, 2005

 

Dáithí Stone, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Attributing climate change and its impact
http://media.med.yale.edu/meta/YIBS/stone.ram

 

 

 

Rita Colwell, University of Maryland, College Park, MD and Johns Hopkins School of Public Heath, Baltimore MD

Cholera outbreaks and ocean climate
http://media.med.yale.edu/meta/YIBS/colwell.ram
 

 

 

 

Gregory Glass, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Climate-based prediction of hantavirus epidemics
http://media.med.yale.edu/meta/YIBS/glass.ram

 

Rodolfo Acuna-Soto, Dept. de Microbiologia y Parasitologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico  

Drought-associated epidemics of hemorrhagic fevers and massive population loss in Mexico
http://media.med.yale.edu/meta/YIBS/soto.ram

 

 

Cecile Viboud, Division of International Epidemiology and  Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD   

Influenza, seasonality and climate: an overview of facts and unknowns
http://media.med.yale.edu/meta/YIBS/viboud.ram

 

    Andrew Comrie, US Dept. of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 

Climate and coccidioidomycosis in the arid Southwest U.S.
http://media.med.yale.edu/meta/YIBS/comrie.ram


 

      Karl Turekian, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Concluding remarks 
 

 

YALE INSTITUTE FOR BIOSPHERIC STUDIES
DIRECTOR, DEREK BRIGGS
Rose Rita Riccitelli, Administrator
Peter Schrader, Administrative Assistant
Room 132, Environmental Science Center, 21 Sachem St.
P.O. Box 208105
New Haven, CT  06520-8105
Phone: (203) 432-9856
Fax: (203) 432-9927



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