Mapping Local Climate Change Attributable Health Burdens
Implementing Organization
Florida State University Research Foundation
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$1,500,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Grants
Details
Project Category
Science
Project Actions
Environmental Research
Targeted Resources
Project Description
Climate change is already adversely impacting human health and is projected to exacerbate environmental exposures from extreme heat, air pollution, and tropical cyclones/hurricanes.1–3 Overburdened communities often face higher environmental exposure levels, have pre-existing health conditions that increase the risk of adverse outcomes, and have lower financial capacity to respond and recover from exposures and disasters. The project’s first overarching goal is to investigate and model interactions of neighborhood level environmental hazards. Next, time series analysis will be used to associate environmental exposures with adverse birth outcomes, illness, and deaths over 2001-2021. Innovatively, the project will also evaluate how air conditioning and filtration can be used to reduce adverse environmental exposures. The study will infer climate attributable health outcomes that will be synthesized into a cumulative risk map to summarize zip code level environmental health disparities. The second overarching goal is to project a plausible range of future climate change and environmental health disparities. Mirroring the structure of the first goal, Bayesian hierarchical modeling will be used to project a range of future scenarios and adverse birth, illness, and death outcomes that will be summarized by a separate cumulative risk map. Working with regional planning councils, a social survey will prioritize future time periods and health disparities and streamline the translation and communication of the project’s outputs (e.g., data formats, story maps). The project will build local government capacity to understand the strengths and limitations of environmental exposures, climate projections, and provide insight into health disparities.
Contact
Chris UejioNone
cuejio@fsu.edu
Project Website
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