Our Research
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News from the Group (see here)
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Our research on the environmental and social forces that drive the dynamics of infectious diseases was profiled in the COEH Bridges issue for summer 2016, including details on the work led by group members Phil Collender and Chris Hoover,
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Climate Change Will Make It Harder For China To Control Water-Related Diseases @climateprogress http://t.co/lv8myRdklI
— Columbia Water Centr (@columbiawater) November 4, 2014
Another way #climate and #water are related. #China #climatechange http://t.co/TV2MR47Vj1
— JHU Water Institute (@JHUGlobalWater) November 4, 2014
#ClimateChange Makes Controlling H2O-Related Diseases More Difficult for China: http://t.co/6RY149ZSvO; More at http://t.co/rXDruD9oyi
— Yale Enviro Center (@YaleEnviro) November 4, 2014
Climate change mitigation strategies, including efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, are not specifically designed to improve human health but can potentially do so. In our manuscript in the May 2014 issue of EHP with collaborators Jeremy Hess, Kris Ebi, Anil Markandya, John Balbus, Andy Haines and others, we critically examine modeling approaches for estimating health co-benefits of GHG mitigation, and highlight model improvements that could help assess which mitigation strategies are the most promising for both climate and human health (May 2014).
See also the associated EHP Science Selections news item. |
Our paper on the convergence of non-communicable and infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries, including group member Lulu Tian, was critically discussed by three invited commentaries in the most recent issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology. The three commentators expanded on our discussion of infection-related cancers, the links between TB, diabetes and smoking, and the social causes of disease (April 2013).
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Anaerobic digesters could reduce greenhouse emissions while improving health in rural China, according to a study by group members Radhika Dhingra and Erick Christensen. See ACS news piece Greening China's Indoor Fuel Use.
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