Climate Change Chat - Research on Human Impacts of Climate Change: Disease,MIgration and Arctic Communities

Join the climate change learning community and climate change SIG for a conversation with doctoral students Alyssa Parpia, Kate Burrows, and Sappho Gilbert.

Alyssa Parpia - understanding the impact of climate on dengue incidence in Costa Rica by using spatio-temporal modeling

Alyssa Parpia is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health. Her work aims to quantify the impact of public health interventions on curtailing infectious disease spread and identify drivers of disease transmission. Alyssa's dissertation research is focused on better understanding the influence of climate on transmission of dengue virus via statistical spatio-temporal and mathematical modeling.

Kate Burrows - environmentally driven migration and estimating the health impacts of this population movement

Kate Burrows is a PhD student and National Geographic Explorer based at Yale University in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. She studies environmental epidemiology and the relationship between the environment, migration, and mental health.

Sappho Gilbert - climate change impacts on Arctic communities

Sappho Gilbert is a doctoral student in the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and a Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the Yale Climate Change and Health Initiative. Her research interests include mental wellness, community health, food security, nutrition, and climate change in the Arctic. Through her work in these areas, she aims to also address salient issues of umanitarian health, human rights, indigenous rights, and ethics.