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
The ENSO-mediterranean teleconnection
Investigator: Jeffrey Shaman
Funded by NSF
Virome of Manhattan
Investigator: Jeffrey Shaman, Marta Galanti, Minhaz Ud-Dean, Haruka Morita
Funded by DARPA
Influenza outbreak prediction
Investigators: Jeffrey Shaman and Wan Yang
Funded by NIH and NSF
Intervening to improve birth weight and infant respiratory health in rural Ghana
Investigators: Darby Jack, Daniel Carrion, and Carlos Gould
Funded by NIH
Children’s Health and Vulnerability to Heat and Ozone in New York City
Affiliated Investigator: Perry Sheffield
Funded by NIH
The impact of environmental conditions on the productivity of agricultural workers
Investigator: Matthew Neidell
Funded by NIH/NIEHS