Events
Upcoming events
11/5 Climate and Health seminar with Dr. Usama Bilal (Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health)
Dr. Bilal will give a talk on 'Hotter, or more vulnerable? Neighborhood inequities in heat and mortality in cities of the Americas: from robust data infrastructures to policy engagement'
11/12 Climate and Health seminar with Dr. Radley Horton (Columbia Climate School)
Details TBA
12/3 Climate and Health seminar with Professor Michael Gerrard (Columbia Law School)
Details TBA
Past events
2026-2027
CHART/C-ARCH seminar: Kai Chen
Oct 22, 2026
Tracking the extreme weather health burden in the United States
Kai Chen, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health
Rising to the Heat: Setting the heat adaptation agenda from the demand side
Sept 24, 2026
C-ARCH hosted a panel event for Climate Week 2026. As extreme heat increasingly threatens health and communities around the world, this interactive discussion brought together leaders from government, academia, and other sectors to examine what is needed to accelerate heat adaptation—and where the greatest gaps and opportunities lie.
Panelists:
Hon. Jiwoh Emmanuel Abdulai; Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Government of Sierra Leone
Nana Dr. Antwi-Boasiako Amoah; Chair of the African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change; Director of Adaptation, Climate Resilience and Risk Management, Environmental Protection Authority, Ghana
Dr. Thoai Ngo; Professor and Chair, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
2025-2026
C-ARCH Symposium
Apr 29, 2026
C-ARCH Symposium - The program showcased the breadth of climate and health research underway at Mailman and explored opportunities for interdisciplinary, solutions-oriented collaboration across Columbia and beyond
Co-sponsored by Columbia Global and the Columbia Climate School
CHART/C-ARCH seminar: Thiago Arzua
Apr 17, 2026
Environmental Stressors and their Intergenerational Effect
Thiago Arzua, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University
Speed networking event
Apr 17, 2026
Come meet fellow associate research scientists, postdocs, and PhD students and learn about their research! Refreshments will be provided!
Co-hosted with CHART (Charting solutions for health impacts of extreme weather) Center
Seminar with Anshu Gupta
Apr 10, 2026
Dignity-Led Development: Sustainability at Scale
Anshu Gupta, Founder of Goonj
CHART/C-ARCH seminar: Kevin Schwarzwald
Mar 23, 2026
Climate Uncertainties in Projections of Climate Impacts
Kevin Schwarzwald, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia Climate School
C-ARCH student engagement event
Dec 2, 2025
Lunch event to 1) learn about C-ARCH, 2) hear first-hand experience from COP30, and 3) share ideas to shape C-ARCH
Kiros Berhane, Cynthia and Robert Citrone-Roslyn and Leslie Goldstein Professor of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health
Darby Jack, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
Robbie Parks, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
CHART/C-ARCH seminar: Duy Linh Tu
Nov 13, 2025
From Science to Story Telling
Duy Linh Tu, Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Journalism School
C-ARCH seminar: Nicholas Otienoh Oguge and Nathaniel Matthews-Trigg
Sept 26, 2025
Partnerships for Climate Resilience: Solutions Across Sectors at the Global Level
Nicholas Otienoh Oguge, Professor of Environmental Policy, Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law & Policy, University of Nairobi
Nathaniel Matthews-Trigg, Americares director of climate and disaster resilience for the Americas