25th April monthly seminar'23 - Human-Mosquito Interactions and Public Health in the Context of Climate Change (John Palmer)
25th April monthly seminar'23 - Human-Mosquito Interactions and Public Health in the Context of Climate Change (John Palmer)
25th April monthly seminar'23 - Human-Mosquito Interactions and Public Health in the Context of Climate Change (John Palmer)
The UPF Centre for Studies on Planetary Wellbeing organizes a monthly seminar consisting of informal sessions meant to foster discussions, sharing of challenges, new ideas, and potential collaboration across different programs at UPF related to Planetary Wellbeing. These sessions are open to all UPF community and external participants so, feel free to share this information with anyone who might be interested
Human-Mosquito Interactions and Public Health in the Context of Climate Change
Date and time: April 25th 2023, 13:00-14:00h CEST
Location: UPF Ciutadella Campus, Room 40.213 or register to attend online here
Title: Human-Mosquito Interactions and Public Health in the Context of Climate Change
Speaker: John Palmer (Associate professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University)
Summary: Recent shifts in the population dynamics and ranges of several mosquito species have led to large increases in the global burden of mosquito borne diseases and in the risk of outbreaks of these diseases in many areas. This process is driven, in part, by climate change making certain parts of the world more environmentally suitable to vector mosquitoes, while at the same time changing human behavior in ways that create more opportunities for the human-mosquito interactions through which pathogens are transmitted. This talk will provide an overview of current research on these topics, with a particular focus on the role of human activities in shaping spatio-temporal patterns of mosquito borne disease transmission.