Intensifying heatwaves and flooding, together with mounting pressures on transport, housing, and energy systems, are producing consequences that ripple through everyday behaviour, environmental exposures, all affecting population health and health inequalities. Yet modelling of extreme climate events, transport and infrastructure resilience, and health outcomes remains largely absent from assessments of urban resilience and mitigation led by climate science and engineering.
This interactive workshop, hosted in collaboration with UBD Policy (The Urban Burden of Disease Estimation for Policy Making), brings together experts in climate science, transport, environmental exposures, and health modelling to examine the threats a changing climate poses to infrastructure and communities, their effects on behaviour, exposures, and health, and how methods need to adapt to changing times. Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working at the intersection of climate, cities, and health are warmly invited to bring their own perspectives, share ongoing work, and help surface the open questions and challenges of incorporating climate impacts into quantitative health assessments of urban scenarios.
Featured speakers:
- Prof Hayley Fowler (University of Newcastle/UK Climate Change Committee)
- Dr Alistair Ford (University of Newcastle)
- Prof Cathryn Tonne (ISGlobal)
- Dr Zahra Shahhoseini, Hazard Evacuation Specialist (NSW Reconstruction Authority)
- Prof James Woodcock (University of Loughborough)
- Dr Ismail Saadi (University of Cambridge)
- Dr Tabea Sonnenschein (University of Cambridge)
