YCEI Forum: "Integration of Climate Change and Infectious Disease"

The Yale Climate & Energy Institute's Climate Systems and Human Health Initiative recognizes the need for sound science in evaluating the potential impacts of climate change upon infectious diseases of humans.

This forum will facilitate a cross disciplinary dialogue to determine what is needed to more effectively integrate climate science and infectious disease research. 

8:25 - 9:05 AM
Response of Regional and Local Temperature to Global Warming: Processes of Possible Relevance for Human Health
Noah Diffenbaugh, Dept. of Environmental Earth SystemScience, Stanford University

9:05 - 9:45 AM
Climate Variability and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Changing Human Landscapes
Mercedes Pascual, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

9:45 - 10:25 AM
Climatic Drivers of Influenza Seasonality
Cécile Viboud, Fogarty International Center, NIH

10:40 - 11:20 AM
Local Hydrologic and Meteorologic Constraints on Infectious Disease Transmission
Jeffrey Shaman, Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University

11:20 - 12:00 PM
Simulating the Global Water Cycle: Climate Changes & Disease Implications
William Gutowski Jr., Dept. of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University

1:15 - 1:55 PM
Relevant Microclimate for Determining Malaria Transmission Risk
Matthew Thomas, Dept. of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University

1:55 - 2:35 PM
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases: Climate, Landscape, Transmission and Scale
Uriel Kitron, Dept. of Environmental Studies, Emory University

2:35 - 3:15 PM
Climate Information for Malaria Prevention, Control and Elimination
Madeleine Thomson, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University

3:30 - 4:10 PM
Seasonal Life Cycle Organization and Host-Seeking Activity of Vector Ticks in Central Europe
Olaf Kahl, tick-radar Gmbh, Berlin Germany

4:10 - 4:50 PM
Vector Potential & Climate Change: Perspectives from the Pitcher-Plant Mosquito
William Bradshaw, Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon