Climate Change and Health Seminar: "Tools for Environmentally-informed Malaria Control in the Western Amazon"

Join the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health for our first Climate Change and Health Seminar lecture of the academic year: "Tools for Environmentally-informed Malaria Control in the Western Amazon." Dr. Benjamin Zaitchik, Professor at the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, will be our guest speaker. Registration is required and can be done via Zoom.

Benjamin Zaitchik is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. His research addresses hydroclimatic variability, including fundamental work on atmospheric and hydrological processes and application to problems of water resources, agriculture and human health. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Zaitchik was a Research Associate at NASA and a AAAS Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. He holds a Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University, an M.S. in Soil Sciences from Cornell University, and an A.B. in Biology from Harvard College.