Research

Objectives

Climate change affects health through complex mechanisms that include shifts in the global atmosphere, in regional ecology, in social structures, and in human exposures and behaviors. Our research aims to elucidate these mechanisms, to identify the precise role that climate plays in long-term health trends, and to project future impacts by modeling plausible climate scenarios.

We also study the local health benefits that can be achieved when actions are taken to reduce greenhouse pollutants, such as CO2, methane, and black carbon. Many policies that reduce emissions of such pollutants also deliver immediate and localized environmental co-benefits, such as lower rates of asthma. The Program is developing and applying new methods to assess health co-benefits of emerging climate mitigation policies at local, regional, and global scales.

Projects

COVID-19 Pandemic and Invasive Meningococcal disease

Investigator: Jeffrey Shaman (PI)
Funded by: Pfizer

Suicide as a Contagion: Modeling and Forecasting Emergent Outbreaks

Investigator: Jeffrey Shaman (MPI)
Funded by: NIMH

Analysis and Simulation of Bacterial Infections and Resource Strain in Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Investigator: Jeffrey Shaman (MPI), Sen Pei (MPI)
Funded by: National Cener for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Human Behavior Driven Mathematical Modeling and Forecasting of Respiratory Disease Transmission in Urban Settings

Investigator: Sen Pei (PI), Jeffrey Shaman (Co-PI), Wan Yang (Co-PI)
Funded by: NSF

Quantifying Error Growth to Improve Infectious Disease Forecast Accuracy

Investigator: Jeffrey Shaman (PI), Sen Pei (Co-PI)
Funded by: NIAID

Preparing for Future Pandemics: Subway Crowd Management to Minimize Airborne Transmission of Respiratory Viruses (Way-CARE)

Investigator: Jeffrey Shaman (Co-PI)
Funded by: NSF

Improve CDC’s Use of Forecasting Modeling and Analytical Approaches to Inform Public Health Policy Development

Investigator: Jeffrey Shaman (PI), Sen Pei (Co-PI), Wan Yang (Co-PI)
Funded by: CDC Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics

Geohealth Hub for Research and Training in Eastern Africa - U.S.

Investigator: Darby Jack (Co-PI)
Funded by: Fogarty International Center

Combating Household Air Pollution With Clean Energy

Investigator: Darby Jack (PI)
Funded by: Columbia World Projects

Child Lung Development Following a Cookstove Intervention: Evidence from GRAPHS

Investigator: Darby Jack (PI)
Funded by: NIEHS

Early Life Household Air Pollution, Metal Composition and Cardiovascular Health: Evidence from GRAPHS

Investigator: Darby Jack (Co-PI)
Funded by: NIEHS

Integrating Air Pollution Prediction Models: Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation in Health Studies

Investigator: Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou (PI)
Funded by: NIEHS

Air Pollution and Pregnancy loss

Investigator: Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou (PI)
Funded by: NIEHS

Disease Persistence and Population Dynamics: Modeling Measles Under Mass Vaccination

Investigator: Wan Yang (PI), Jeffrey Shaman (Co-PI)
Funded by: NIAID

UNCOVER: Underlying Novel Causes of Onset of Very Early Cancer Research

Investigator: Wan Yang (PI)
Funded by: NCI

Using Wastewater Surveillance Data to Study SARS-CoV-2 Dynamics and Predict COVID-19 Outcomes

Investigator: Wan Yang (PI), Jeffrey Shaman (Co-PI)
Funded by: NIAID

Enhancing the Impact of the Three CCCEH Birth Cohorts Within the ECHO Consortium in Year 7

Investigator: Frederica Perera (Co-PI)
Funded by: NIH

Identifying Newborns at Risk of Adverse Neurodevelopmental Outcomes and Obesity from Air Pollution