Despite increasing awareness of climate change impacts on health, our ability to quantify the extent to which climate change is responsible for worsening health outcomes remains limited. Health impact attribution studies can provide essential input into policy-making processes by quantifying the climate change related health burden via causally linking greenhouse gas emissions to observed health outcomes. This is crucial to informing health risk assessments, public health interventions, financial investments, and communication strategies aimed at policymakers and the public.
The Global Health Resilience (GHR) group led by ICREA Research Professor Rachel Lowe at the BSC-CNS is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to co-create innovate modelling tools for impact attribution of climate-related health risks. The selected candidate will work within the Wellcome Trust funded project TACTIC (HealTh ImpAct ToolkIt for Climate change attribution). The project will deliver a user-friendly and didactic digital toolkit comprising a series of resources tailored to the needs of policymakers, researchers and other professionals (public health, journalists, communication experts) to better comprehend, interpret and communicate findings and conduct new health impact attribution studies. Together with partners in South America, Africa and Europe, the successful candidate will co-devise new methodologies to fill knowledge gaps on important but rarely assessed climate change related health impacts (chronic kidney disease, mental and perinatal health, and climate-sensitive infectious diseases) and explore inequalities (e.g., age, sex and socioeconomic status) associated with climate change. The postdoctoral researcher will co-develop training materials (e.g., guidelines and hands-on tutorials with R code and example data) for different users (e.g., researchers, public health professionals) to learn how to combine historical counterfactual and future scenarios with epidemiological data and to apply the latest methodologies in health impact attribution. The candidate will work closely with the BSC Knowledge Integration team to co-develop health-impact stories to disseminate information generated in the project TACTIC to a broad audience, making the health impacts of climate change more tangible.
The GHR group conducts cutting-edge methodological research on disentangling the impacts of global environmental change on infectious disease risk and co-developing indicators and impact-based forecasting models to track historical disease risk patterns, generate predictions at sub-seasonal to decadal timescales, and conduct future scenario analyses in collaboration with public health, disaster risk management, and humanitarian agencies. This position presents an opportunity to work alongside a wide range of leading international climate and health scientists and practitioners delivering cutting-edge health impact attribution approaches to support decision-making, adaptation and mitigation planning, and allocation of loss and damage financing in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Europe, and worldwide.
Successful candidates will benefit from expert training and BSC-CNS staff benefits: international multidisciplinary scientific environment and advanced applied research training. We encourage applications from highly motivated candidates with demonstrated experience in impact modelling for public health and an interest in applied research in the context of climate and environmental change.
Key Duties
- Co-design innovative methodologies for impact attribution of climate-related health risks
- Harmonise multi-source, multi-scale climate, land-type, demographic, socio-economic, human movement and health datasets
- Formulate statistical, machine learning and mathematical models to understand the impact of environmental change and socio-economic factors on infectious disease risk and health outcomes
- Develop indicators to track the impact of climate change on multiple health outcomes
- Contribute to the development of open-source modelling tools, e.g. R packages
- Incorporate aspects of inequalities, inequities and injustices in quantitative research
- Contribute to health impact stories and communication materials to disseminate research to a broad audience
- Disseminate research outputs in peer-reviewed scientific papers and international conferences
- Interact with scientists in the group, department, center and other institutions in Barcelona to enhance synergies
- Engage with local communities, stakeholders and policy makers
- Develop training materials and deliver training workshops to researchers, data managers and stakeholders
- Support administrative duties of the group, including arranging meetings, taking minutes, writing deliverable and mission reports, maintaining Wiki/webpages, etc.
- Contribute to proposals for competitive funding
Data de tancament: Divendres, 07 Febrer, 2025
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