TOMORROW! EH Seminar “Bringing Climate Science to Public Health: Population-based Applications for Disaster Preparedness”
The Gijs van Seventer Environmental Health Seminar Series
“Climate Change: Science, Health, and Policy”
Please join us on Friday, November 2nd for:
“Bringing Climate Science to Public Health: Population-based Applications for Disaster Preparedness”
November 2, 2012
Time: 12pm-1pm
Location: Room L-210
BU Medical School Instructional Building
Speaker: P. Gregg Greenough, MD, MPH
Director of Research, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Asst. Professor, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School
Attending Emergency Physician, Division International Health and Humanitarian Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
http://hhi.harvard.edu/about-us/who-we-are/staff
Climatology and the atmospheric sciences have advanced our understanding of current and future climate effects through modeling and analog techniques. In this seminar, Dr. Greenough will discuss the cognitive disconnect between the sophisticated modeling of climate change, extreme weather events and the ability to translate these to populations at risk, especially those that are rapidly urbanizing in harm’s way. This session will highlight the interaction that needs to happen between the climatic sciences and the population-based methods of epidemiology and demography, using tools such as geospatial analysis and mapping,for translation into local and regional preparedness and response.
For more information on upcoming seminar topics and guest speakers, please visit sph.bu.edu/ehseminars
