Accelerating Human Agility in Shifting Disease Landscapes
Accelerating Human Agility in Shifting Disease Landscapes
Session ID#: 124914
Session Description:
Infectious disease risks are anticipated to shift in response to climate change, prompting the need for enhanced disease surveillance efforts, forecast systems, and collaboration between environmental scientists, public health professionals, and policy makers. A priority for global public health is understanding and adapting to complex causation at the interface of climate change, biosphere health, and human infectious diseases. Innovative data analytics, modeling, and forecasting methods are needed to enable agile responses to rapidly changing disease threats. We invite abstracts addressing any of the following questions: (1) how are infectious diseases that affect microbes, plants, animals, and humans responding to climate change? (2) what are methods used to detect and anticipate these responses? (3) how can stakeholders use this information to adapt quickly by providing spatially or temporally targeted interventions?
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
0245 Vector-borne diseases [GEOHEALTH]
0299 General or miscellaneous [GEOHEALTH]
Primary Convener: Julie A. Spencer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners: Jesse E Bell, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, Omaha, NE, United States and Morgan E. Gorris, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Julie A. Spencer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States; Oakridge Institute of Science and Education, Oakridge, TN, United States
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