Fall Meeting 2022

December 12 - 16, 2022

The projected impacts of climate change on populations and human health is a topic of urgent importance, especially with the release of the sixth assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). While many impact assessments and projections are based on downscaled regional-level data and analyses, a more comprehensive inclusion of current and projected population characteristics is needed to enhance vulnerability assessments and the value of predictive models in quantifying the human impacts of climate change. Challenges related to policy development can arise when climate impact analyses do not take into account social and cultural processes important for health that occur within populations or at the individual-level. Considering current and projected heterogeneous population characteristics that contribute to the vulnerability of populations and individuals, like age structure, sex, or socioeconomic conditions, at a sub-regional level remains a key challenge for quantifying the human impacts of projected climate change. We seek studies that explore challenges or innovative methods in considering current and future population characteristics in projections of climate-related impacts. This is an inherently interdisciplinary topic, so we welcome studies from any discipline that seek to advance the methods used to consider populations and human health when quantifying the burden of projected climate change on humans.