Session 12 Effectively Using Weather and Climate Data for Health Investigations

Wednesday, 31 January 2024: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
344 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; and the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Research at the intersection of climate/weather and health is a rapidly growing space spanning many disciplines. While interdisciplinary research bridges expertise and allows for creative methodologies to be applied to unique problems, it can be difficult to appropriately combine data from disparate fields. The goal of this session is to build community capacity in this interdisciplinary space by exploring how to most effectively use environmental data sources in public health and epidemiological applications. Potential topics for this session include examinations and comparisons of data sets for use cases, downscaling techniques, bias correction methods, merging spatial scales of environmental and health data, operationalizing existing data sources for health applications, and any other topic broadly centered on best practices for employing environmental data in the health sphere. We invite researchers and practitioners from all relevant perspectives to join this session, including climate science, environmental health, public health, meteorology, epidemiology, veterinary science, and any other discipline motivated to explore this boundary. This session is co-presented by AMS and the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Papers:
4:45 PM
12.2
Simulating Aedes Mosquito Habitats as an Element of Climate-informed Disease Forecasting
Chanud Nisakya Yasanayake, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and B. F. Zaitchik, L. Gardner, A. Gnanadesikan, and A. Shet

5:00 PM
12.3
Extreme Temperature and Adverse Birth Outcomes for Black and White Women in North Carolina
Bryttani Wooten, The Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Durham, NC

5:15 PM
12.4
Humidity’s Role in Heat-Related Health Outcomes: A Heated Debate
Jane W. Baldwin, ; and T. Benmarhnia, K. L. Ebi, O. Jay, N. Lutsko, and J. Vanos

5:30 PM
12.5
For the Heat Index, It’s about Both the Heat and the Humidity ... and about Choices in Calculation Methodologies
Keith William Dixon, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ; and D. Adams-Smith, N. Zenes, and J. R. Lanzante

5:45 PM
12.6
Ensemble Distribution Modeling of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in Costa Rica
Luis F Chaves, Indiana Univ., Bloomingotn, IN; and M. Friberg, L. R. Bergmann, and R. Marin Rodriguez

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