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Session Proposal: Compound Climate Hazards and Health Risks (AGU25)

GH011
Compound Climate Hazards and Health Risks

Session ID#: 252189

Session Description:
Changing climate conditions are driving shifts in the spatiotemporal distribution of climate-related hazards, causing some regions to be exposed to new hazards, others to experience seasonal changes in existing hazards, and some to face multiple hazards simultaneously. While often examined separately, hazards that occur in the same place and/or time have the potential for synergistic impacts on the environment and society. This poses challenges for characterizing exposure(s), assessing population vulnerability, and anticipating health outcomes. This session aims to explore the evolving landscape of climate-related hazards and their public health implications. We welcome contributions that examine multi-hazard risk—including spatially or temporally compounding, preconditioned, or multivariate —using observational data, modeling frameworks, or scenario-based analyses. We are particularly interested in research that characterizes these compound or cascading risks, assesses related health impacts, identifies vulnerable or newly exposed populations, and develops decision support tools or adaptation strategies for communities and policymakers.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4321 Climate impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener:  Dr. Miriam E Marlier, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, Environmental Health Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Conveners:  Joseph Wilkins, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States, Claire Schollaert, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Yiqun Ma, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
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Hanxu Shi1, Teng Wang2 and Zhenyu Zhang1, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 
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Shifali Mathews, Caitlin Walker and Jaime Madrigano, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, United States
 
Heatwaves enable wildfire activity and smoke impacts in the western United States (Invited) (1866441)
Dmitri Alexander Kalashnikov1, John T Abatzoglou2, Emily L Williams3, Cong Yin3, Madhulika Gurazada3, Mukesh Kumar4, Ashwin Thomas4 and Ebiendele Precious4, (1)University of California Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Merced, CA, United States, (2)University of California Merced, Management of Complex Systems, Merced, CA, United States, (3)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (4)University of California Merced, Merced, United States
 
Developing an Early Childhood Environmental Health Vulnerability Index to Assess Cumulative Health Impacts Across U.S. Counties (2019–2023) (1870154)
Siyu Liu1, Anni Yang1, Diane Horm2, Mingze Zhu3 and Changjie Cai3, (1)University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (2)Early Childhood Education Institute at the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma, Occupational and Environmental Health, Oklahoma City, United States
 
Global Prioritization of Modifiable Cancer Risk Factors Using Machine Learning and GBD Data, 2005–2019 (1874710)
Xiu Wu, Tulane University, Austin, TX, UNITED STATES and Jinting Zhang, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
 
Dual exposure to power outages and wildfire PM2.5 in California among vulnerable populations (Invited) (1880534)
Lauren Wilner, University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, Washington, UNITED STATES, Caitlin Jones-Ngo, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Tarik Benmarhnia, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Joan Casey, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, United States
 
Elevated oxygen partial pressure reduces population exposure to hypoxia over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (1893751)
Yanqiang Chen, Tsinghua University, Vanke School of Public Health, Beijing, China
 
Global compound effects of humid heat and air pollution exposure on infant mortality (1900248)
Katie McMahon, University of California, Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, United States, Kathy Baylis, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, United States, Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States and Stuart Sweeney, Pasadena, CA, United States; University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States
 
Mapping Micro-Scale Heat Risk in New York City: A Fine-Grained Index Incorporating Adaptive Capacity (1903965)
Miaojing Wei, Columbia University, New York, New York, UNITED STATES
 
Compound Climate Hazards and Maternal-Child Health: Cyclone Exposure During Pregnancy in Coastal Bangladesh (1915223)
Md Rajibul Islam1, Lamia Tahsin Kamal Purnata2, Ferdousi Akter Mishu3, Md. Hasanur Rahman3, Ferdousi Rahman2, Nazifa Tabassum2, Sonia Binte Murshed3, . Shampa3, Ahmed Ishtiaque Chowdhury4, Shammi Haque5 and Mashfiqus Salehin6, (1)Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Institute of Water & Flood Management (IWFM), Dhaka, Bangladesh, (2)Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Institute of Water & Flood Management, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (3)Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), Dhaka, Bangladesh, (4)Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (5)Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), Dhaka, Bangladesh, (6)Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Institute of Water and Flood Management, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 
A Multi Country Analysis of Resiliency to Climate Driven Malaria Risk (1917034)
Megan Kowalcyk1, Maxwell Elling2, Kristopher B Karnauskas3, Allan Mayaba Mwinde4, Donnie Mategula5, James Chirombo5,6, James Colborn7, Robert McCann8, Andrea Buchwald8 and Baltazar Candrinho9, (1)Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (4)School of Public Health, University of Zambia, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Lusaka, Zambia, (5)Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, (6)Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (7)Clinton Health Access Initiative, Maputo, Mozambique, (8)University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, Baltimore, United States, (9)National Malaria Control Program, Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique
 
Maternal Exposure to Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) and Adverse Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis (1926561)
Sharif Mutasim Billah1,2, Afrin Laila Parvin1,3, Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary1,2 and Tasmia Baree Tuna1,2, (1)Environment and Sustainability Research Initiative, Khulna, Bangladesh, (2)Khulna University, Life Science School, Environmental Science Discipline, Khulna, Bangladesh, (3)Laboratory for Cell Biology in Environmental Toxicology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bizkaia, Spain
 
Evaluation of Risk Reduction Effect of Cold Wave Adaptation Policy (1947287)
Sangjun Lee and Heeyeun Yoon, Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
 
Future Burden of Temperature-Related Mortality in the Czech Republic Under Climate and Demographic Change (1956089)
Falak Naz, Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prague, 165, Czech Republic, Aleš Urban, Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic and Ana M Vicedo-Cabrera, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern; Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
 
A Multi-country Analysis of Floods and Mortality in 1,374 Latin American Municipalities, with Modification by Age, Sex, and Features of the Urban Environment (1961168)
Josiah Kephart1, Hanna Jardel2, Juan Carlos Figueroa2, Usama Bilal2, Waleska T Caiaffa3, Nelson Gouveia4, Luz Mery Cárdenas-Cárdenas5, Laura Baldovino-Chiquillo6, Olga L Sarmiento6 and Ana V Diez Roux2, (1)1 Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, UNITED STATES, (2)Drexel University, Urban Health Collaborative, Philadelphia, United States, (3)UFMG Federal University of Minas Gerais, Observatório de Saúde Urbana de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, (4)USP University of Sao Paulo, Department of Preventive Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil, (5)Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Centro de Investigación en Salud Poblacional, Cuernavaca, Mexico, (6)Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Medicina, Bogota, Colombia
 
HyEco: An Integrated Hydrodynamic–Ecological Framework to Unveil Health Risks from Contaminated Urban Floodwaters During Unprecedented Climate Extremes (1962467)
Mr. Rahul Deopa, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India and Mohit Prakash Mohanty, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Water Resources Development and Management, Roorkee, India
 
Assessing Spatiotemporal Disparities in Household-Level Power Outage Events Across Southern California (1963511)
Yishi Wang1, Lu Zhang2 and Kelly Sanders1, (1)University of Southern California, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Southern California, Biostatistics, Los Angeles, United States
 
Algae, Climate and Health: Tracing Metal Accumulation in Sargassum Across the Tropical Atlantic (1965257)
Clara Chang1, Jeriyla Kamau-Weng2, Kailani Acosta2, Anirban Basu3, Ronald Glabonjat3, Mattie Rodrigue2, Vincent Pieribone2 and Joaquim I Goes4, (1)Columbia University of New York, Columbia Climate School, New York, United States, (2)OceanX, New York, United States, (3)Columbia University of New York, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, United States, (4)Lamont Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Power Outages And Public Health: Mapping Compounding Climate Risks Across U.S. Counties (1966315)
Hera Dashnyam, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States and Shenyue Jia, Miami University Oxford, Science & Society Section, Oxford, United States
 
Rainfall-Induced Hydroplaning Risk Hotspots in the Continental United States (1966935)
Kaustubh Anil Salvi, University of Alabama, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engg., Tuscaloosa, United States and Mukesh Kumar, University of Alabama, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
 
Resilience, Recovery, and Response: A Four-Pronged Comparative Analysis of Community Needs Following Severe Weather Events (1973541)
Layhla Currier1, Elizabeth Cole2, Sarah Elizabeth Scales1, Kelsey Ellis3, Jordan Fazio4, Kristina Kintziger5 and Jennifer First6, (1)University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, Omaha, United States, (2)University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health, Omaha, United States, (3)University of Tennessee, Geography, Knoxville, TN, United States, (4)University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, United States, (5)University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, Omaha, United States, (6)University of Missouri Columbia, College of Health Sciences, Columbia, United States
 
Extreme Locust Attacks Worsening Socioeconomic Vulnerability in India (1975307)
Ishani Palandurkar, Pennsylvania State University University Park, State College, PA, UNITED STATES and Emily Pakhtigian, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Public Policy, University Park, United States
 
Climate-related Hazards and Toxic Layering in Environmental Justice Mining Communities: Participatory Exposure Science to Address Compounding Risks (1979622)
Monica Ramirez-Andreotta1, Zain A Alqattan2, Godsgift Chukwuonye2, Christopher Jones3 and Miriam Jones2, (1)University of Arizona, Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Environmental Science, Tucson, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Tucson, United States
 
Groundwater Contamination and Emerging Health Risks: A Case Study from the Indo-Yamuna River, Delhi (1988087)
Salauddin Salauddin, Jamia Hamdard University, UNITED STATES
 
Increased Risk of Intimate Partner Violence Following Compound Extreme Weather Events: Evidence from 16 Low- and Middle-Income Countries (1998533)
Liza Goldberg, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, United States, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States and Meghna Ranganathan, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Global Health and Development, London, United Kingdom
 
On the move: Understanding climate-related health risks to nomadic pastoralists (1998557)
Deepti Singh, Washington State University Vancouver, School of the Environment, Vancouver, WA, United States, Dalmas Ochieng Omia, University of Nairobi, Anthropology, Nairobi, Kenya, Anne Pisor, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Anthropology, University Park, United States, Eric Osoro, Washington State University, Global Health, Pullman, Kenya and Njenga Kariuki, Washington State University, Nairobi, Kenya
 
Mortality risk from compound exposure to fire PM2.5 and extreme heat in the contiguous United States (2000569)
Kai Chen, Yale University, Yale School of Public Health, Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, New Haven, CT, United States, Lingzhi Chu, Yale School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, New Haven, United States and Jing Wei, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States
 
Evaluating how micro-climate and water quality parameters influence the severity of kidney stone disease: A case study from Sri Lanka (2003692)
Aadhityaa Mohanavelu1, Khalid Osman1, Calyani Ganesan2 and Alan C. Pao2, (1)Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Medicine, Stanford, United States
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