Carrie Nichols, Author at Forecasting Healthy Futures

Launch of University of California Center for Climate, Health and Equity

Harnessing the health sector's expertise and leadership to advance equitable climate action.

Resources - 04/29/2022

Climate-sensitive disease outbreaks in the aftermath of extreme climatic events: A scoping review

This review identifies potential hydrometeorological triggers of outbreaks and highlights gaps in knowledge on the causal chain between extreme events and outbreaks.

Resources - 04/29/2022

Trapped by Rising Water

Record floods linked to climate change have left the people of South Sudan in crisis.

News - 04/22/2022

CDC Launches New Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics

New center will enhance capability for timely, effective decision-making to improve outbreak response using data, models, and analytics

Resources - 04/22/2022

Quality criteria for the evaluation of climate-informed early warning systems for infectious diseases

In the context of infectious disease epidemics, the use of climate-informed early warning systems has the potential to increase the effectiveness of disease control by intervening before or at the beginning of the epidemic curve, instead of during the downward slope.

Resources - 04/08/2022

Landscape mapping of software tools for climate-sensitive infectious disease modelling

Climate-informed infectious disease models have the potential to become powerful tools to support public health decision making. This project aimed to identify existing software tools at the intersection of climate and infectious diseases, and to identify opportunities for the development of tools.

Resources - 04/08/2022

Climate change report puts world on 'fast track' to disaster: U.N.

n response to a new report on climate change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said Monday that its findings are proof that the world is on the "fast track" to a climate disaster.

News - 04/08/2022