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Mapping Intersection of Water, Climate and Disease Transmission

Understanding the relationship between water resources, climate change and mobility can help us better understand disease transmission.

Funding Year: 
2018
Region(s): 
Africa
Research Areas: 
Freshwater
Public Health

This project will combine detailed ethnographic and epidemiological fieldwork with remote sensing of water resources to create simulation models exploring future climate change scenarios. This effort will create maps to help government ministries and nongovernmental organizations develop combined economic and epidemiological interventions for communities in Africa.

Learn more about the Environmental Venture Projects grant program and other funded projects.


Principal Investigators:

James Holland Jones, Professor of Earth System Science

Alexandra Konings, Professor of Earth System Science

Jeffrey Koseff, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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