climate change – Alabama Regional Center for Infection Prevention & Control, Training and Technical Assistance (ARCIPC)

In this webinar Dr. Luis Chaves will present results from his research on Malaria, Leishmaniasis and other vector-borne diseases that have illustrated the importance of climate change to understand emerging ecological and epidemiological patterns on the transmission of vector-borne diseases.

Learning objectives:

Recognize the importance of Global Climatic Phenomena like the El Ni~no Southern Oscillation and the Indian Ocean Dipole and their teleconnections for the transmission of vector-borne diseases.
Recognize that impacts of climate change on vector-borne disease transmission are mediated by impacts of changing environments on the abundance of insect vectors, but also on the relationship between insects and pathogens.
Understand that impacts of climate change on vector-borne diseases are conditioned by the dominant social conditions of locations where transmission occurs.

This webinar is presented by the Alabama Regional Center for Infection Prevention and Control and cosponsored by the Deep South Center for Occupational Health and Safety, the Alabama Statewide Area Health Education Centers (AHEC), and the Region IV Public Health Training Center.

The Deep South Center for OH&S is an approved provider of continuing education units for nurses by the AL Board of Nursing (Provider ABNP0420 Expiration Date 7/10/2025) and has awarded this program 1.2 ABN CEUs. All other professionals awarded .1 CEUs.

Dr. Luis Chaves, Ph.D

Luis Fernando Chaves (Ph.D. Michigan 2008 in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) is an associate professor in the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. He has been studying insect vectors and the diseases they transmit since he was an undergraduate in Venezuela, and he has published extensively on the ecology of insect vectors, their relationship to transmission of pathogens and the response of vector-borne diseases to climate change. Dr. Chaves has directed research projects in Costa Rica, Panamá, USA, Venezuela and Japan, and he has collaborated in projects based in Canada, Brazil, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Taiwan, Korea, Vanuatu and Kenya, among other places, while holding academic and/or government positions in the US, Japan, Panama and Costa Rica.

Evaluation

In this lecture, Dr. Jeffrey Shaman (Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Director, Climate and Health Program, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health) will explore the relationship between disease systems and the broader effects of climate and weather on human health.

Dr. Shaman is also Faculty Chair of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the Columbia Climate School. He studies the survival, transmission and ecology of infectious agents, including the effects of meteorological and hydrological conditions on these processes. His work-to-date has primarily focused on mosquito-borne and respiratory pathogens. He uses mathematical and statistical models to describe, understand and forecast the transmission dynamics of these disease systems, and to investigate the broader effects of climate and weather on human health.

The lecture is sponsored by the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, Office of Public Health Practice, Alabama Regional Center for Infection Prevention and Control, and Department of Environmental Health Sciences and will take place from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. on May 4 via Zoom. Participants can register using the button below.