EMORY CLIMATE & HEALTH RESEARCH INCUBATOR

Fostering climate and health research to improve our response to
climate change

Systematic review

of climate

impacts on

toxic chemical exposures

Matt Gribble

This funding supported a systematic search and scoping review of climate change and chemical exposures. This database search strategy looked for publications that included climate, chemical and exposure pathway terms in human populations.

Personal heat and humidity exposure among HAPIN participants

in India

Ajay Pillarisetti and

Noah Scovronick

This study aims to leverage collected data from the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN)  trial, a multi-country (India, Rwanda, Guatemala, Peru) clean stove and fuel intervention study focusing on the impact of reduced household air pollution on health endpoints including birthweight and blood pressure.

Wildfire smoke exposure and incident stroke among older

adults

Liuhua Shi

Increasing extreme weather has intensified the frequency, severity, and duration of wildfire events over the last several decades. This study aims to investigate associations between long-term exposure to wildfire smoke PM 2.5 and stroke among the Medicare population in California.

Climate change

and NTD's in

immigrants in Atlanta and countries of origin

Jessica Fairley,

Uriel Kitron, and

Becca Philipsborn

Migration of populations from Central and South America and the Caribbean to the United States has been increasing over the past few decades for a variety of reasons including conflict, economic stress and climate change. In order to better understand the role of climate change in decisions to immigrate to Georgia, our team will conduct a survey with an immigrant patient population at an Atlanta clinic.

Yang Liu

Director

Noah Scovronick

Associate Director

Yun Hang

Post Doc Research Fellow

Rachel Usher

Project Manager