A5077194300- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Global Health Care Issues
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Noise Effects and Management
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Climate variability and models
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Disaster Response and Management
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
Arizona State University
2016-2025
University of Phoenix
2023-2025
Arizona Department of Health Services
2023
Ruhr University Bochum
2021
UNSW Sydney
2021
University of Guelph
2021
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
2021
University of Arizona
2021
ORCID
2019
University of Virginia
2006-2018
Abstract Urban overheating, driven by global climate change and urban development, is a major contemporary challenge that substantially impacts livability sustainability. Overheating represents multifaceted threat to the well‐being, performance, health of individuals as well energy efficiency economy cities, it influenced complex interactions between building, city, scale climates. In recent decades, extensive discipline‐specific research has characterized heat assessed its implications on...
The recent concurrence of electrical grid failure events in time with extreme temperatures is compounding the population health risks weather episodes. Here, we combine simulated heat exposure data during historical wave three large U.S. cities to assess degree which heat-related mortality and morbidity change response a concurrent event. We develop novel approach estimating individually experienced temperature approximate how personal-level changes on an hourly basis, accounting for both...
High temperature and humidity conditions are associated with short-term elevations in the mortality rate many United States cities. Previous research has quantified this relationship an aggregate manner over large metropolitan areas, but within these areas response may differ based on local-scale variability climate, population characteristics, socio-economic factors.We compared for 48 Zip Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) comprising Philadelphia County, PA to determine if certain elevated risk...
Background: Environmental heat exposure is a public health concern. The impacts of environmental on mortality and morbidity at the population scale are well documented, but little known about specific exposures that individuals experience. Objectives: first objective this work was to catalyze discussion role personal information in research risk assessment. second provide guidance regarding operationalization methods. Discussion: We define as realized contact between person an indoor or...
Access to air conditioned space is critical for protecting urban populations from the adverse effects of heat exposure. Yet there remains fairly limited knowledge penetration private (home conditioning) and distribution public (cooling centers commercial space) cooled across cities. Furthermore, deployment government-sponsored cooling likely be inadequately informed with respect location existing resources (residential conditioning space), raising questions equitability access refuges. We...
Here we present, for the first time, a glossary of biometeorological terms. The aims to address need reliable source definitions, thereby facilitating communication and mutual understanding in this rapidly expanding field. A total 171 terms are defined, with reference 234 citations. It is anticipated that will be revisited coming years, updating adding new terms, as appropriate. intended provide useful resource biometeorology community, end, readers encouraged contact lead author suggest...
Background: Multiple methods are employed for modeling adaptation when projecting the impact of climate change on heat-related mortality. The sensitivity impacts to each is unknown because they have never been systematically compared. In addition, little known about relative “adaptation uncertainty” (i.e., inclusion/exclusion modeling) using multiple models and emissions scenarios. Objectives: This study had three aims: a) Compare range in projected that arises from different methods; b)...
Mortality rates increase immediately after periods of high air temperature. In the days and weeks heat events, time series may exhibit mortality displacement-periods lower than expected mortality. We examined all-cause meteorological data from 1980 to 2009 in cities Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Phoenix, Arizona; Seattle, Washington; St. Louis, Missouri. modeled baseline using a generalized additive model. Heat waves...
BackgroundExtreme heat is a public health challenge. The scarcity of directly comparable studies on the association with morbidity and mortality inconsistent identification threshold temperatures for severe impacts hampers development comprehensive strategies aimed at reducing adverse heat-health events.ObjectivesThis quantitative study was designed to link temperature events in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA, focus summer season.MethodsUsing Poisson regression models that controlled temporal...
Abstract Heat has become a central concern for cities everywhere, but heat governance historically lagged behind other climate change hazards. This study examines 175 municipal plans from the 50 most populous in United States to understand which aspects of urban are included or not city and what factors explain inclusion. We find that majority mention heat, few include strategies address it even fewer cite sources information. The term ‘extreme event’ (EHE) is significantly more likely be...
Designing cities for thermal comfort is an important priority in a warming and urbanizing world. As temperatures continue to break extreme heat records, it necessary develop test new approaches capable of tracking human sensations influenced by microclimate conditions, complex urban geometries, individual characteristics dynamic settings. Thermal walks are promising novel research method address this gap. During walk Phoenix, Arizona, USA, we examined relationships between the built...
Extreme heat is a leading weather-related cause of illness and death in many locations across the globe, including subtropical Australia. The possibility increasingly frequent severe waves warrants continued efforts to reduce this health burden, which could be accomplished by targeting intervention measures toward most vulnerable communities.We sought quantify spatial variability heat-related morbidity Brisbane, Australia, highlight regions city with greatest risk. We also aimed find...
Abstract Preventing heat-associated morbidity and mortality is a public health priority in Maricopa County, Arizona (United States). The objective of this project was to evaluate County cooling centers gain insight into their capacity provide relief for the during extreme heat events. During summer 2014, 53 were evaluated assess facility visitor characteristics. staff collected data by directly observing daily operations surveying managers visitors. often housed within community, senior, or...
Increasing urban temperatures pose a public health threat and, in many cities, there is disparity among neighborhoods with respect to access cooling benefits. Residents may be unable afford operate systems, and underserved communities are less likely and/or able advocate for heat-reducing solutions. There also significant gap between adaptation theory practice. This could diminished by better understanding the barriers limits processes. paper presents Nature's Cooling Systems project's...