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.
Zoom
Contact Information
Kaela Barna
kb3875@drexel.edu