Session: Developing Climate, Public Health, and Citizen Science Services to Predict and Prevent Climate-Sensitive Health Risks and Serve the Public Good (AGU Fall Meeting 2018)

GH13A:
Developing Climate, Public Health, and Citizen Science Services to Predict and Prevent Climate-Sensitive Health Risks and Serve the Public Good

Session ID#: 60068

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:

Using Global Seasonal Forecasts to Map Chikungunya Risk (410178)

Assaf Anyamba, USRA & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt,, United States, Radina P Soebiyanto, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Wassila Mamadu Thiaw, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD, United States, Richard Damoah, Morgan State University, Physics, Baltimore, MD, United States; Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States and Kenneth James Linthicum, USDA-ARS, Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology (CMAVE), Gainesville, United States