Environmental Health

2018 CSTE National Disaster Epidemiology Workshop

Provide relevant and timely learning opportunities for epidemiologists, public health emergency preparedness coordinators, emergency managers and academia in disaster epidemiology. Provide opportunities for attendees to network and build partnerships with epidemiologists from across subject disciplines to share best practices and collaborate on epidemiologic approaches towards improving all-hazard disaster preparedness and response capacities at local, state, …

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Climate Change and Public Health: The Plant Perspective

Dr. Ziska was the lead author on a 2011 article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing changes in ragweed pollen seasons by latitude in central North America since the mid-1990s. Updated data from this analysis are being used by the EPA in their ragweed pollen season climate change indicator: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/indicators/society-eco/ragweed.html Lewis …

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