INDEPTH colleagues take part in Harvard climate change events

Some colleagues from INDEPTH will be participating in a week of climate change-related events referred to as the “Harvard University Climate Week celebrations” organised by the University of Harvard in the US. As part of the events and programmes marking this undertaking to be held between April 25 and 28 is a workshop series on the health impact of climate change titled: “Climate change and health: opportunities for collaboration between disciplines.”

Organised by the Harvard Global Health Institute, this workshop series will provide the opportunity for researchers and scholars to discuss how: to link longitudinal (retrospective) health datasets (HDSS) with time-series data from different sectors (meteorology, agriculture, entomology, economics), and; to link empirical results, from which climate health impact functions can be distilled to existing climate models in order to be able to project health impacts to various policy relevant time horizons, i.e. 2050.

 The main objective of the Harvard workshop series is to frame collaborative and programmatic research agendas in two key areas:

• Designing and improving research methods in climate and health, in particular using longitudinal retrospective datasets (HDSS)
• Quantifying the burden of child undernutrition from climate change in Africa.

 INDEPTH has been invited and will be participating at this workshop (with presentations). INDEPTH will be represented by Dr. Ali Sie (Centre Leader of the Nouna HDSS and Leader of the INDEPTH working Group on Environment and Health), Dr. Eric Diboulo from Nouna HDSS (who is actively involved on climate change and health studies) and; Dr. Martin Bangha from the Resource Centre who coordinated the INDEPTH project on Climate Change, Migration and Mortality (CLIMIMO). The Harvard Workshop Series is facilitated by Prof. Rainer Sauerborn (who needs no introduction to INDEPTH). Read More