"Climate Change Aggravates Over Half of Pathogenic Diseases"

December Webinar hosted by Pacific RISCC

We are excited to announce the upcoming December Pacific RISCC Webinar. Dr. Tristan McKenzie, Postdoctoral Researcher with Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden will present: Climate Change Aggravates over Half of Pathogenic Diseases.

This talk will be on Monday, December 19th, 2 - 3:15 PM HST via Zoom. Registration Link is Here.  Please see a speaker bio and abstract for the talk below.  

For Hawaiʻi & the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands, Please look below to find what day/time the December presentation is in your time zone:

American Sāmoa: 1:00-2:15 pm on Monday, December 19
Hawaiʻi: 2:00-3:15 pm on  Monday,  December 19
Palau: 9:00-10:15 am on Tuesday,  December 20
CNMI & Guam: 10:00-11:15 am on Tuesday,  December 20
FSM: 10:00-11:15 am (Weno) / 11:00 am-12:15 pm (Palikir), on Tuesday,  December 20
RMI: 12:00 - 1:15 pm on Tuesday,  December 20

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Tristan McKenzie is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He completed his PhD at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Geology and Geophysics in 2020 focusing on anthropogenic impacts to coastal water quality using geochemical tracers. His current work integrates geochemistry and artificial intelligence to answer multidisciplinary questions about human-induced stressors on environmental systems.

Abstract:

Numerous studies have documented the effect that climate change can have on human pathogenic diseases, but no previous study has fully quantified the full extent of the threat. We carried out a systematic search for explicit observations of ten different climatic hazards sensitive to greenhouse gas emissions affecting human disease. Our meta-analysis revealed 58% (218 out of 375) diseases are aggravated by climatic hazards through 1,006 transmission pathways. Atmospheric warming and vector-borne transmission were associated with enhancing the greatest number of diseases. This talk will include global results with case examples from the Pacific. Broadly, this work highlights the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Register at: https://hawaii.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtdeitpj8uEtJPglp0gs-7qaGQDq36pVBo