Seminar at the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medi cine/Epidemiology Global Health
\nTitle:
Research on Zi
ka\, Malaria and Other Vector-borne Diseases at The International Research
Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)
Speaker: Madeleine Thomson
Senior Research Scholar\, Columbia
University\, US.
\;
Place: Room 135\, Family Medicine/ Epidemiology Global Health
\, Building \;9A\, NUS
Host: Joacim Rocklö\;v
\, Public Health and Clinical Medicine
\;
Bios:
Mad
eleine Thomson is a Senior Research Scientist at the International Researc
h Institute for Climate and Society and Senior Scholar at the Mailman Scho
ol of Public Health\, Department of Environmental Health Sciences &ndash\;
at Columbia University. She is also the Director of the IRI/PAHO-WHO Coll
aborating Centre (US 306) for Early Warning Systems for Malaria and Other
Climate Sensitive Diseases.
She trained originally as a fie
ld entomologist and has spent much of her career engaged in operational re
search in support of large-scale health interventions\, mostly in Africa.
Her research focuses on the development of new data\, methodologies and to
ols for improving climate sensitive health interventions \;Her focus h
as been on vector-borne diseases (e.g. malaria\, onchocerciasis\, visceral
lieshmaniasis etc.) but in recent years has expanded to include \;air
and water-borne infections as well as broader health challenges associate
d with food security and disasters. She is a founding member of the Mening
itis Environmental Risk Information Technologies (MERIT) research consorti
um and the Vice-President of a non-profit 501(3)c\, the Health and Climate
Foundation. She is currently engaged by the Wellcome Trust as &ldquo\;Spe
cial Adviser &ndash\; Environment\, Nutrition &\; Health&rdquo\;.
She is particularly interested in improving institutional and hu
man capacity for incorporating climate information into health planning. T
o help achieve the latter she is working to create a &ldquo\;health and cl
imate&rdquo\; disciplinary interface and a &ldquo\;climate smart&rdquo\; p
ublic health community through the &lsquo\;Climate Information for Public
Health Action (CIPHA)&rsquo\; initiative. She is and has been PI and Co-PI
on projects funded by NASA\, NIH\, USAID\, NOAA\, \;Google.org\, the
International Federation of the Red Cross\, the UK Department for Internat
ional Development\, the UK Meningitis Research Foundation\, the UK Medical
Research Council\, The World Health Organization\, the World Meteorologic
al Organization\, the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control\, the E
uropean Union\, amongst others. \; \;She has a master&rsquo\;s in
applied pest management from Imperial College London (1985) and a Ph.D. fr
om the University of Liverpool based on her field work on the ecology and
identification of the \;Simulium damnosum \;vectors of \;Oncho
cerciasis volvulus \;in Sierra Leone (1989). She joined the IRI in May
2002.
Source: \;http://iri.columbia.edu/contact/staff-direct
ory/madeleine-thomson/
\;
Welcome!
Joacim Rockl
ö\;v
Seminar at the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Epidemiology Global Health
\nTitle:
Speaker:
Madeleine Thomson
Senior Research S
cholar\, Columbia University\, US.
\;
Place: Room 135\, Family Medicine/ Epidemiol
ogy Global Health\, Building \;9A\, NUS
Host: Joa
cim Rocklö\;v\, Public Health and Clinical Medicine
\;
Bios:
Madeleine Thomson is a Senior Research Scientist at the Inte
rnational Research Institute for Climate and Society and Senior Scholar at
the Mailman School of Public Health\, Department of Environmental Health
Sciences &ndash\; at Columbia University. She is also the Director of the
IRI/PAHO-WHO Collaborating Centre (US 306) for Early Warning Systems for M
alaria and Other Climate Sensitive Diseases.
She trained or
iginally as a field entomologist and has spent much of her career engaged
in operational research in support of large-scale health interventions\, m
ostly in Africa. Her research focuses on the development of new data\, met
hodologies and tools for improving climate sensitive health interventions&
nbsp\;Her focus has been on vector-borne diseases (e.g. malaria\, onchocer
ciasis\, visceral lieshmaniasis etc.) but in recent years has expanded to
include \;air and water-borne infections as well as broader health cha
llenges associated with food security and disasters. She is a founding mem
ber of the Meningitis Environmental Risk Information Technologies (MERIT)
research consortium and the Vice-President of a non-profit 501(3)c\, the H
ealth and Climate Foundation. She is currently engaged by the Wellcome Tru
st as &ldquo\;Special Adviser &ndash\; Environment\, Nutrition &\; Heal
th&rdquo\;.
She is particularly interested in improving ins
titutional and human capacity for incorporating climate information into h
ealth planning. To help achieve the latter she is working to create a &ldq
uo\;health and climate&rdquo\; disciplinary interface and a &ldquo\;climat
e smart&rdquo\; public health community through the &lsquo\;Climate Inform
ation for Public Health Action (CIPHA)&rsquo\; initiative. She is and has
been PI and Co-PI on projects funded by NASA\, NIH\, USAID\, NOAA\, \;
Google.org\, the International Federation of the Red Cross\, the UK Depart
ment for International Development\, the UK Meningitis Research Foundation
\, the UK Medical Research Council\, The World Health Organization\, the W
orld Meteorological Organization\, the African Programme for Onchocerciasi
s Control\, the European Union\, amongst others. \; \;She has a ma
ster&rsquo\;s in applied pest management from Imperial College London (198
5) and a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool based on her field work on
the ecology and identification of the \;Simulium damnosum \;vecto
rs of \;Onchocerciasis volvulus \;in Sierra Leone (1989). She join
ed the IRI in May 2002.
Source: \;http://iri.columbia.edu/con
tact/staff-directory/madeleine-thomson/
\;
Welcome! Joacim Rocklö\;v