Climate Change and Urban Health Webinar Series - Dr. Aina Roca Barcelo

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

Please join the Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center (CCUH) and the Climate Change and Urban Health in Latin America Project (SALURBAL-Climate) for a webinar featuring Dr. Aina Roca-Barceló.

Dr. Roca-Barceló is a Climate Adaptation Advisor with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) with the Humanitarian Action for Climate and the Environment (HACE) team, where she is co-leading an important initiative to design and implement MSF’s first systematic heat response plans. Dr. Roca-Barceló holds a PhD from the Imperial College London.

Dr. Roca-Barceló will present a talk titled, "A Random Forest Approach for High-Resolution Estimation of Ground-Level Daily Mean Temperature: Case Study of São Paulo, Brazil (2015–2019)". Her research focuses on developing a machine-learning model to estimate daily mean temperatures at High Spatial Resolution (500 x 500m), using Sao Paulo as a case study. This work facilitated a health impact assessment of temperature-related mortality in the city, with a particular emphasis on Social Inequalities.

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Contact Information

Kaela Barna
kb3875@drexel.edu