Tracking infectious diseases in a warming world

Kris A Murray; Luis E Escobar; Rachel Lowe; Joacim Rocklöv; Jan C Semenza; Nick Watts

doi:10.1136/bmj.m3086

Tracking infectious diseases in a warming world

BMJ. 2020 Nov 13:371:m3086. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m3086.

Authors

Kris A Murray^{1

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4}, Luis E Escobar⁵, Rachel Lowe^{4

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7}, Joacim Rocklöv⁸, Jan C Semenza⁹, Nick Watts¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK kris.murray@imperial.ac.uk kris.murray@lshtm.ac.uk.
² Grantham Institute-Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College, London, UK.
³ MRC Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Atlantic Boulevard, Fajara, Banjul, the Gambia.
⁴ Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, 24061 USA.
⁶ Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁷ Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain.
⁸ Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
⁹ Scientific Assessment Section, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 169 73 Solna, Sweden.
¹⁰ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London W1T 4TJ, UK.

Abstract

Using infectious diseases sensitive to climate as indicators of climate change helps stimulate and inform public health responses, write Kris A Murray and colleagues

MeSH terms

Animals
Dengue / prevention & control
Dengue / transmission*
Disease Vectors
Global Burden of Disease
Global Warming*
Humans
Information Dissemination
International Cooperation
Malaria / prevention & control
Malaria / transmission*
Public Health / methods
Spatio-Temporal Analysis
Vibrio Infections / prevention & control
Vibrio Infections / transmission*

Grants and funding

MR/R015600/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom