This talk will present in an accessible way the approaches used in epidemiology to estimate the relation between meteorological conditions and health, focusing on the example of temperature effects on mortality. A key challenge relates to the fact that only a small fraction of weather-related deaths are identified as such in death certificates.

Time-series analyses, which are an essential option to circumvent this challenge, will be presented (with distributed non linear lag models as a special case) , as well as before-after studies. The distinction with health impact assessment (HIA) studies, allowing, on the longer term, to quantify the impact of climate change, will be done. The detailed methodology of Health impact assessment studies, which can also be used to estimate the health co-benefits of climate change mitigation strategies, will be presented in a second talk [planned on October 7].

Free sandwiches will be served after the talk !

Rémy Slama, Senior investigator at Inserm and Pr. attaché ENS, Institut de Biologie de l’ENS, PARSEC (Paris Research on Health Environment and Climate).

About the seminar cycle – Approaches and methods to quantify links between climate change and health

See the poster here:
https://hub.bio.ens.psl.eu/index.php/s/sYgLyB4ZxYirtgy

Climate change will have major impacts on human health, and already started to do so. Documenting these impacts, but also the implications that adaptation and mitigation policies may have on human health, is therefore a major issue to feed public decision related to climate change preparedness, adaptation and mitigation.

This short seminar cycles aims at introducing the approaches and methods developed and used at PARSEC (Paris Research on Health, Environment and Climate) in order to foster collaborations with members of other departments and disciplines.

PARSEC is a new research structure dedicated to producing knowledge at the intersection of climate change and health, and supported by the École normale supérieure (ENS-PSL) and Inserm (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research), and directed by Rémy Slama (IBENS).

Les séminaires auront lieu les 11 septembre, 7 octobre et 6 novembre au département de Géosciences de l’ENS : 24 rue Lhomond – aile Erasme – salle Claude Froidevaux – E314