GH21B:
Climate Influences on Infectious Disease Dynamics and the Potential for Transnational Outbreaks Posters


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Session ID#: 59210

Session Description:
Infectious disease dynamics can be impacted by climate in several ways. Mean annual climate conditions can broadly define the spatial extent of a disease. On finer scales, local climate and weather can influence the abundance of both disease organisms and hosts, leading to changes in disease transmission and incidence. When environmental conditions are favorable, disease vectors combined with human behavior may cause localized outbreaks which can cross international borders. Climate change may exacerbate these impacts, possibly shifting the geographical distribution or incidence of infectious diseases and creating more favorable conditions for outbreaks. Recent Ebola and Zika virus outbreaks demonstrated how infectious diseases have strong environmental controls that could be helpful in predicting their reemergence and spread. We are seeking research focused on connections between the environment and infectious disease dynamics and forecasts of emerging pandemic threats. We encourage submissions from all disciplines, including public health, environmental, social, and political sciences.
Primary Convener:  Morgan E. Gorris, University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States
Conveners:  Jesse Bell, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States, Jean-Paul Chretien, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Center for Medical Intelligence, Frederick, MD, United States and Anthony L Nguy-Robertson, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Research & Development, St. Louis, United States
Primary Liaison:  Morgan E. Gorris, University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States
Chairs:  Morgan E. Gorris, University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States and Jean-Paul Chretien, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Center for Medical Intelligence, Frederick, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jesse Bell, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites North Carolina State, Asheville, NC, UNITED STATES

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0232 Impacts of climate change: ecosystem health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
0245 Vector born diseases [GEOHEALTH]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Effective Climate Communication: Using Data on the spread of Infectious Diseases to Improve Community Preparedness (417295)
Leyla McCurdy and Rebecca Rehr, ecoAmerica, Climate for Health, Washington, DC, United States
Using Remote Sensing Data to Assess the Influence of Environmental Conditions on Seasonal Influenza Across the US (427033)
Emily Ann Serman, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Heidar T Thrastarson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Joao Teixeira, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Building frameworks for predicting disease outbreaks using environmental data (364285)
Anthony L Nguy-Robertson, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Research & Development, St. Louis, United States, Heather Robinson, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Office of Geomatics, St. Louis, MO, United States and Christopher Stanton, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Office of Geomatics, Springfield, VA, United States
The Role of Broad-scale Climate in the Periodic Northern Expansion of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Incidence in North America (418415)
Heather Savoy, Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research Program, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Debra P C Peters, USDA-ARS, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Luis Rodriguez, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Tallahassee, United States, Angela M. Pelzel-McCluskey, USDA APHIS, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Nathan Dylan Burruss, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Justin D Derner, USDA ARS, Cheyenne, WY, United States and D. Scott McVey, USDA ARS, Manhattan, KS, United States
The Sensitivity of Lyme Disease to Climate and Land Cover in the Northeastern United States (447229)
Jonathan Winter1, Trevor Partridge2, Dorothy Wallace3, Eliza R Dekker3, Jonathan W Chipman3 and Matt Ayres3, (1)Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
Can we classify different Aedes borne diseases? (446005)
Moiz Usmani, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States, Rakibul Khan, West Virginia University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States, LianShin Lin, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, Rita R Colwell, University of Maryland College Park, Institute of Advanced Computer Studies, College Park, United States and Dr. Antarpreet Singh Jutla, PhD, University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Evaluating Risk of Mosquito Bourne Viruses in Brazil (446837)
Kaitlyn Martinez, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Sara Del Valle, Los Alamos National Laboratory, (A-1) Analytics, Intelligence, and Technology Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Carrie Manore, Los Alamos National Laboratory, (T-6) Theoretical Biology & Biophysics, Los Alamos, United States
Seasonal trends of mosquitoes that mediate vector-born diseases in temperate zone (428841)
Yusuke Kuwano, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Shin Fukui, Wasada University, Tokorozawa, Japan and Ohta Shunji, Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Japan

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