EMORY CLIMATE & HEALTH RESEARCH INCUBATOR
Fostering climate and health research to improve our response to
climate change
GOALS & APPROACH
The primary goal of the Emory Climate and Heath Research Incubator is to identify and pursue climate and health research projects that can have a significant impact on society. We are doing that by:
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STRENGTHENING THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY
Emory has tremendous talent across the university working on climate and health research. We aim to strengthen this community so we can do even more together.
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PROVIDING SUPPORT TO OUR COMMUNITY
Research partners will be supported through a listserv, regular meetings, curated information about funding opportunities and targeted technical assistance.
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DEEPENING RELATIONSHIPS WITH PARTNERS
Our collaborators in Atlanta, the "public health capital of the world," and across the globe are essential to our efforts to make a difference on climate and health research.
PROJECTS
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.
PEOPLE
Dana Barr - RSPH GDEH
Sarah Bartlett - RSPH Administration
Erik Brownsword - SOM Administration
Emily Burchfield - ENVS
Bethany Caruso - RSPH GH
Mike Caudle - RSPH GDEH
Howard Chang - RSPH BIOS
Roxana Chicas - SON
Tom Clasen - RSPH GDEH
Solveig Cunningham - RSPH GH
Ani Deshpande - RSPH EPI
Stefanie Ebelt - RSPH GDEH
Christine Ekenga - RSPH GDEH
Jessica Fairley - SOM
Matthew Freeman - RSPH GDEH
Lance Gunderson - ECAS ENVS
Saria Hassan - SOM
Sydney Hubbard - RSPH GDEH
Zhihao Jin - RSPH GDEH
Uriel Kitron - ECAS ENVS
Morgan Lane - SOM Administration
Brooke Lappe - RSPH GDEH
Tim Lash - RSPH EPI
Donghai Liang - RSPH GDEH
Valerie Mac - SON
Talea Mayo - ECAS Mathematics
Sarahna Moyd - RSPH GDEH
Hemali Oza - RSPH GDEH
Becca Philipsborn - SOM Pediatrics
Eri Saikawa - ECAS ENVS
Liuhua Shi - RSPH GDEH
Debjani Sihi - ENVS
Sheela Sinharoy - RSPH GH
Tamara Spikes - RSPH GDEH
Kyle Steenland - RSPH GDEH
Lisa Thompson - SON
Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec - ENVS
Lance Waller - RSPH BIOS
Jackie Wang - RSPH GH
Cynthia Whitney - RSPH HPM
Yuzhi Xi - RSPH GDEH
To learn more, click on individual names for links to academic profiles.
MEET OUR NETWORK
Many thanks to the Emory Office of Sustainability Initiatives (Emory OSI) for their support in the project Emory Climate Stories. If you have any questions please contact the project PI Yun Hang.
JOIN US
Interested in learning more?
Tell us about yourself, and we will be in touch.
The Emory Climate and Health Research Incubator is an initiative of Climate@Emory, a university-wide effort at Emory University to advance climate change scholarship, teaching, partnership, and engagement at Emory and beyond.
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