Tuesday, 8 January 2019: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation;
the 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment;
the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice;
the 10th Conference on Environment and Health;
and the Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication
)
Cochairs:
John Balbus, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD and Alan Blumberg, Stevens Institute of Technology, Davidson Laboratory, Hoboken, NJ
This session will highlight initial analyses and the assessments of the health impacts from the devastating hurricane season of 2017, with a focus on interactions between healthcare and municipal infrastructure, housing and human and animal health. Immediate and delayed impacts, cascading power failure and heat waves, infectious and chronic diseases, loss of access to care and exposure to harmful chemicals and pathogens are all relevant subjects. Talks highlighting innovative ways of obtaining data or implementing solutions are most welcome.
Papers:
3:00 PM
TJ15.1
3:15 PM
TJ15.2
3:45 PM
Discussion
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