The Climate and Environmental History Seminar: Climate's Health Impact
Seminar
Date: Wednesday 27 March 2024
Time: 15.00 – 17.00
Location: Only online via Zoom
Dr. Sassa Chen, The Public Health Agency of Sweden, presents at the seminar on the topic "Climate's Health Impact: Malaria and Mortality in Pre-Industrial Nordic Regions".
The intensifying impacts of climate change on human health represent a significant global health threat of this century. What lessons can be drawn from the past? This talk provides an overview of the climate influence on malaria-related mortality during the late pre-industrial Sweden 1749–1859. The findings reveal a discernible climate-related impact on health in the Nordic region, albeit with observed shifts in temporal and spatial patterns from the historical data spanning over a century.
About the speaker
Sassa Chen, recently finished her PhD in geography at University of Gothenburg on
pre-industrial mortality and malaria in Sweden. She now works at the Public
Health Agency of Sweden investigating the impacts of climate change on the health risk, vulnerability and capacity of Swedish society.
Join on Zoom: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/67925090294
Last updated: March 27, 2024
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