Focused Research Program sponsored by the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, with support from IGS.

To further BU’s leadership in climate and health research, an interdisciplinary project team is developing the infrastructure and shared resources for researchers across BU to access state-of-the-art climate data, visualize and quantify vulnerability to climate hazards and health risks, and model the health benefits of heat adaptation strategies.

Project Focus Areas

  1. Expanding the climate resilience data hub: Making climate-relevant data more accessible and usable by engaging the BU community and external experts to identify data needs, streamline sharing, and accelerate climate research.
  2. Visualizing vulnerability and inequity to inform action: Developing and implementing methods to visualize and quantify spatial variation in climate hazard vulnerabilities, health risks, and inequities, with an emphasis on local-scale insights to guide adaptation and public health efforts.
  3. Modeling the health benefits of heat adaptation strategies: Facilitating development of a decision support tool to help stakeholders and decisionmakers quantify the potential temperature and health benefits of local climate adaptation actions.

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