Assessing the Vulnerability of Low-Income Countries to Climate Change and Facilitating Implementation of Country Specific Adaptation Measures.

  • Starts: 12:45 pm on Friday, October 20, 2017
  • Ends: 1:45 pm on Friday, October 20, 2017
Speaker: Kristie Ebi, PhD, MS, MPH Rohm & Haas Endowed Professorship in Public Health Sciences Professor of Global Health and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington Note: this seminar will be given online. Speaker Bio: Kristie L. Ebi is the Rohm & Haas Endowed Professorship in Public Health Sciences and she been conducting research and practice on the health risks of climate variability and change for twenty years. Her research focuses on the impacts of and adaptation to climate variability and change, including on extreme events, thermal stress, foodborne safety and security, and vectorborne diseases. She focuses on understanding sources of vulnerability, estimating current and future health risks of climate change, and designing adaptation policies and measures to reduce the risks of climate change in multi-stressor environments. She has supported multiple countries in Central America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific in assessing their vulnerability and implementing adaptation measures, in collaboration with WHO, UNDP, USAID, and others. She also is co-chair with Tom Kram (PBL, The Netherlands) of the International Committee On New Integrated Climate change assessjment Scenarios (ICONICS), facilitating development of new climate change scenarios. Dr. Ebi’s scientific training includes an M.S. in toxicology and a Ph.D. and a Masters of Public Health in epidemiology, and two years of postgraduate research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has edited fours books on aspects of climate change and has more than 180 publications.
Location:
Online: TBD
Link:
http://www.bu.edu/sph/about/departments/environmental-health/ehseminars/fall-2017-seminar-schedule/
Contact Name
jean van seventer
Contact Email
jvsevent@bu.edu