EMD Seminar Series: Rachel Baker - "Climate Impacts on Infectious Disease: Past, Present, and Future"

The climate is expected to play a driving role in the transmission of many infectious diseases with implications for climate change. However, the impact of the climate on directly-transmitted diseases i.e. diseases that spread directly person-to-person, such as COVID19 and influenza, has been less well studied. Here I use statistical inference, mechanistic modeling and climate change projections to characterize the climate drivers of directly-transmitted disease outbreaks, and explore the future risk from climate change, while accounting for variability and uncertainty.

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