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.
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SPEAKERS
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TALKS
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Friday, December 9, 2005
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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
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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
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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
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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 |
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Saturday, December 10, 2005
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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
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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
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Gregory
Glass, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Climate-based prediction of hantavirus epidemics
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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
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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
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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
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Karl Turekian, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University,
New Haven, CT
Concluding remarks
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