GH21C:
Developing Climate, Public Health, and Citizen Science Services to Predict and Prevent Climate-Sensitive Health Risks and Serve the Public Good Posters


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Session ID#: 60019

Session Description:
Climate variability and extreme events affect human health and well-being through multiple environmental pathways resulting in increased heat-related mortality and illness, and changes in climate-sensitive diseases. Heatwaves are on the rise around the world, affecting urban populations, outdoor workers, children and productivity. Disease outbreaks, such as Zika, Dengue and other water-related illness also affect communities, economies and can destabilize regions, posing threats to national security. Advances in climate prediction make the potential to predict, plan for, and reduce climate-sensitive health impacts a real possibility. This session will focus on the development of climate-related information and services, as well as institutional cooperation and collaboration, to mitigate health-related risks. We will address various aspects of developing and expanding services and enhancing health and security, including technical methods and modeling; the use of earth observations; the role of sustained interdisciplinary collaboration; decision maker engagement strategies; institutional relationships and network development; and transboundary/transnational cooperation.
Primary Convener:  Lisa Vaughan, NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Juli Trtanj, NOAA, Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, United States, Jeffrey K. Greenberg, Wheaton College, Geology and Environmental Science, Wheaton, IL, United States and Jeff Morgan, Joint Research and Development (JRAD), Stafford, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lisa Vaughan, NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, College Park, MD, United States
Chairs:  Juli Trtanj, NOAA, Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, United States and Jeff Morgan, Joint Research and Development (JRAD), Stafford, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jeffrey K. Greenberg, Wheaton College, Geology and Environmental Science, Wheaton, IL, United States
Co-Organized with:
GeoHealth, and Public Affairs

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0245 Vector born diseases [GEOHEALTH]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The human cost of global warming: Deadly landslides and their triggers 1995-2014 (376335)
Ubydul Haque, University of North Texas, Health Science Center, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Denton, TX, United States
Risk of hospitalization for asthma associated with changes in timing of spring onset (388821)
Yan Dong1, Chengsheng Jiang2, Ghassem Asrar3, Yuyu Zhou4, Amir Sapkota2 and Clifford Mitchell5, (1)Wuhan University, School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan, China, (2)University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Iowa State University, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States, (5)Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MD, United States
Developing Climate Services for Health: The case of Malaria Predictability in West Africa (416373)
Ibrahima Diouf and Wassila Mamadu Thiaw, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD, United States
Investigating the Spread of Pathogens: Lyme Disease (444842)
Claire McDonald, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, Moiz Usmani, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States and Dr. Antarpreet Singh Jutla, PhD, University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Testing Technologies to Mitigate Blue Green Algae Blooms along the Shoreline of Owasco Lake, Central New York. (450684)
John D Halfman1, Katherine E Valicenti2, Shelby Johnson1, Lisa Cleckner3, Trevor Massey3, Ileana Dumitriu4, Peter Spacher4 and Dana Hall5, (1)Hobart and William Smith College, Department of Geoscience, Geneva, NY, United States, (2)Hobart and William Smith College, Environmental Studies Program, Geneva, NY, United States, (3)Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Finger Lakes Institute, Geneva, United States, (4)Hobart and William Smith College, Department of Physics, Geneva, NY, United States, (5)Owasco Lake Watershed Association, Auburn, NY, United States

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