Climate change creates cascading health effects that disproportionately impact vulnerable communities. This talk examines intervention strategies to protect health during extreme weather and why those strategies sometimes fail. The discussion will identify actionable pathways to build more resilient health systems and safeguard population health in our changing climate.
Dr. Kate Burrows is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and an environmental health scientist whose research focuses on the relationship between climate- and weather-related extremes and public health. She has interdisciplinary training in environmental epidemiology (PhD, Yale University School of the Environment) and social-behavioral sciences (MPH, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health), which allows her to investigate global health issues from a unique perspective that incorporates sociocultural determinants of health and environmental exposures. Dr. Burrows is a mixed-methods scientist. She conducts qualitative and community-based research as well as quantitative research using big data at the national level. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, Dr. Burrows was a Voss Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute at Brown University for Environment and Society.
Lunch will be served starting at 11:45 AM.