Professional Activities
I have been invited by several organizations to give public talks about the impact of climate change on health.
I also had requests from the mainstream media to comment on the impact of climate change on vector-borne diseases.
Further details are provided below and on my personal website.
Conference Roles
- Symposium 9, "Beyond Temperature: Assessing the Global Burden of Disease from Climate Change, Climate Change and Vector-Borne Diseases at ISEE 2020 virtual conference, by Invitation (Online conference, 2020)
- Impact of climatic, demographic and disease control factors on the spread of Covid19 in large cities worldwide at WMO virtual symposium on Climatological, Meteorological, and Environmental factors in the COVID-19 pandemic (Virtual symposium, 2020)
- Modelling the impact of climate change on human health, lessons learnt, open questions and perspectives at Advancing Research for Regional Climate Information, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Virtual workshop, 2020)
- L'impact du réchauffement climatique sur la santé, une vue d'ensemble at Scientific seminar, LSCE-CEA, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Paris Saclay, France, 2020)
- Public health: how to deal with climate change? at 12th European Public Health Conference, by Invitation (Marseille, 2019)
- Impact of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on regional climate and malaria vector dynamics in Tanzania, LSTM, Liverpool, UK, 20 Jun 2019, by Invitation (ISNTD, 2019)
- "Maladies infectieuses vectorielles et changement climatique", Invited keynote talk, Audition, Paris, France 7 May 2019, by Invitation (French Academy of Medicine, 2019)
- Impact of climate change on vector-borne diseases, past, recent and future trends, invited keynote talk, BAVP winter meeting, Cambridge, UK, 10-11 Dec 2018 , Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (BAVP, 2018)
- Climate change and health, a humanitarian challenge, 8th Annual Health in Humanitarian Settings Research Symposium, LSTM, Liverpool, UK, 13 Nov 2018 , by Invitation (LSTM, 2018)
- Impact du réchauffement climatique sur la santé: une vue d'ensemble, session 8, climat et santé, Journée "Climat et Impacts", Orsay, France 29-30 November 2018 , by Invitation (CEA-LSCE, 2018)
- "Climate Changes and Vector-Borne Diseases in Europe", oral presentation, XI European congress of entomology, Naples, Italy 2-6 July 2018 , by Invitation (ECE2018, 2018)
- Impact of standard and ice-destabilization Climate scenarios on malaria transmission and potential migration patterns at Oxford Symposium on population, Migration and the Environment (University of Oxford, 2017)
- "Modeling and mapping the risk of key vector-borne diseases under climate change scenarios" Drylands, Deserts and Desertification 2017, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boquer, Israel 6-8 Nov 2017, by Invitation (Ben gurion University, 2017)
- Host - workshop H1: Climate change and vector-borne diseases at Impacts world 2017 conference (PIK, Potsdam, Germany, 2017)
- Did El Nino 2015-2016 fuel the South-American Zika outbreak? at IECID2017 conference, Keynote/Plenary (ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 2017)
- A link between environmental change and the 2015-16 Zika outbreak in South America, Contemporary issues in global health: the Zika epidemic, Queen Mary University, London 27 February 2017, by Invitation (Queen Mary university, 2017)
- Did El Nino 2015-2016 fuel the South-American Zika outbreak? at NIHR HPRU in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections annual conference - Zika and other emerging infections (University of Liverpool, 2016)
- Global risk model for the mosquito-borne transmission of Zika virus reveals the role of El Nino 2015-2016 at Vector-borne diseases in the UK, biennal conference, Keynote/Plenary (University of Liverpool, UK, 2016)
- Changement climatique et maladies vectorielles, Scientific seminar, LSCE-CEA, Paris 24 November 2016, by Invitation (LSCE-CEA, 2016)
- Did El Nino 2015-2016 fuel the South-American Zika outbreak, Zika virus workshop organised by the Wellcome Trust, London 27 September 2016, by Invitation (Wellcome Trust, 2016)
- Réchauffement climatique et santé publique, vers une nouvelle géographie des risques, Press conference organized by AJEC21, Paris 29 June 2016, by Invitation (AJEC21, 2016)
- "Modéliser l’impact du réchauffement climatique sur les maladies infectieuses vectorielles". Scientific seminar, CERFACS, Toulouse, France, 5 Nov, by Invitation (CERFACS, 2015)
- Modelling Vector borne diseases with Climate Model Drivers at World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation, by Invitation (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 2015)
- "Modelling the impact of climate change on human and animal vector-borne diseases". Mini-symposium "Current and future Research trends on Climate Change and Health" - Side event of "Our common future under climate change" conference - Pre COP21. Auditorium of Biopark, Paris, France 6 July, by Invitation (Aviesan, 2015)
- "Modélisation de l'évolution des maladies vectorielles liée au changement climatique". Rencontres scientifiques de l'ANSES: Microorganismes - Dynamique environnementale et effets sanitaires. Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris, France 19 May, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (ANSES, 2015)
- Drought over the Sahel: recent context and future scenarios at 3rd Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert conference, by Invitation (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK, 2015)
- Modelling the impact of climate change on global malaria burden: a multi-model approach and Impact of climate change on animal parasitic disease: the example of common liver fluke in the UK and Europe at IECID 2015, Keynote/Plenary (Sitges, Spain, 2015)
- Invited to contribute to an expert panel about potential impact of solar geoengineering at Climate Impacts of Solar Radiation Management Climate Engineering workshop, by Invitation (IASS, Potsdam, Germany, 2015)
- "Modéliser les impacts du réchauffement climatique sur les maladies vectorielles". Colloque Santé Biodiversité, Notre Santé dépend elle de la biodiversité? Atelier A - Le changement climatique induit-il une aggravation des maladies infectieuses émergentes? Lyon, France 27-28 Oct, by Invitation (Humanité et biodiversité, 2014)
- "Modéliser l’impact du réchauffement climatique sur les maladies vectorielles". International conference and International workshop on Climate change and health, Paris, France 2-3 Oct, by Invitation (gis-climat, 2014)
- Climate change scenarios over West Africa: from CMIP3 to CMIP5 and beyond, Rainfall and RVF emergence in Senegal: beyond twenty years of investigations, lesson learned and perspectives in the climate change context and The first malaria multi-model inter-comparison exercise over Africa at Africa climate conference, Keynote/Plenary (Arusha, Tanzania, 2013)
- "Future disease risk changes & climate scenario simulations". The International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases (ISNTD), Invited to sit in the Disease & climate change session panel, National History Museum, London, UK, 17 Oct, by Invitation (ISNTD, 2012)
- Health Impact Models Intercomparison: The example of Malaria over West Africa and Climate change scenarios over West Africa: from CMIP3 to CMIP5 at 4th AMMA international conference, Keynote/Plenary (CIC Météo France, Toulouse, France, 2012)
- When will European countries exceed the 2°C temperature increase? and Simulating infectious disease risk based on climatic drivers: from numerical weather prediction to long term climate change scenario at European Geosciences Union 2012 conference (Vienna ICC, Austria, 2012)
- "Exploring the potential benefits and important uncertainties within existing climate information: Sources and uncertainties in climate information". Workshop "Addressing the climate information requirements of humanitarian and development policy-makers and community ‘end users’", Nairobi, Kenya, 25 Feb, by Invitation (Humanitarian Futures Programme, 2011)
- Using Regional Climate Models for Disease Risk production in Europe at 10th International Conference on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Keynote/Plenary (Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2010)
- Impact of climate change upon vector borne diseases in Europe and Africa using ENSEMBLES Regional Climate Models at European Geosciences Union 2010 conference (Vienna ICC, Austria, 2010)
- Climatic variability and its implication for staple crop production in Ghana: the Good, the bad and the unknown at DSA annual conference, by Invitation (Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, 2009)
- A multi-Model reliability study over the Sahel: from seasonal forecasting to climate simulations at 3rd International AMMA conference, Keynote/Plenary (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2009)
- European models reliability over West Africa: from seasonal forecasting to climate scenarios at European Geosciences Union 2009 (Vienna ICC, Austria, 2009)
Editorships
- Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (Invited Reviewer, 2020 - present)
- Planetary Health, Frontiers (Review Editor, 2019 - present)
- Roy. Soc. Biology Letters (Reviewer, 2019 - present)
- Environmental Health Perpectives (Reviewer, 2019 - present)
- Wires climate change (Reviewer, 2018 - present)
- Climate services (Reviewer, 2018 - present)
- Nature communications (Reviewer, 2018 - present)
- Plos Medicine (Reviewer, 2018 - present)
- Wires climate change (Reviewer, 2017 - present)
- International Journal of Health Geographics (Reviewer, 2017 - present)
- Nature (Reviewer, 2017 - present)
- BMC Infectious Diseases (Reviewer, 2017 - present)
- Global and Planetary Change (Reviewer, 2017 - present)
- Tropical Medicine & International Health (Reviewer, 2017 - present)
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Reviewer, 2017 - present)
- Journal of Infection (Reviewer, 2017 - present)
- PNAS (Reviewer, 2016 - present)
- Journal of Infectious Diseases (Reviewer & invited to write editorial, 2016 - present)
- Climatic Change (Reviewer, 2016 - present)
- Nature Scientific Reports (Reviewer, 2016 - present)
- PloS NTD (Reviewer, 2016 - present)
- Veterinary Parasitology (Reviewer, 2016 - present)
- Science of the Total Environment (Reviewer, 2016 - present)
- Environment Health Perspectives (Reviewer, 2015 - present)
- Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association (Reviewer, 2015 - present)
- Environmental Research Letters (Reviewer, 2015 - present)
- Geospatial Health (Reviewer, 2015 - present)
- Weather - Climate and Society (Reviewer, 2014 - present)
- Journal of Geophysical Research (Reviewer, 2014 - present)
- Nature Climate Change (Reviewer & invited to write editorial, 2014 - present)
- Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health (Reviewer, 2013 - present)
- Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases (Reviewer, 2012 - present)
- Global Change Biology (Reviewer, 2012 - present)
- IPCC WGII AR5 report, 2014 (Reviewer - Chapters 11, 22 and 23, 2012 - 2014)
- PlosOne (Reviewer, 2011 - present)
- Geophysical Research Letters (Reviewer, 2010 - present)
- Journal of Climate (Reviewer, 2010 - present)
- Climate Dynamics (Reviewer, 2010 - present)
- Atmospheric Research (Reviewer, 2010 - present)
- International Journal of Climatology (Reviewer, 2010 - present)
Event Roles
- Climate change impacts on health – Is summer coming? at Outreach event - Night of Ideas, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Alliance française de Manchester, UK, 2019)
- The London NERC Doctoral Training partnership, teaching week at Impact of climate change on vector-borne diseases, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, UCL campus, London UK, 2020)
- Climate change impacts on environmental data and applications for heath at Environmental Monitoring event goes down a storm, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Sensor city, Liverpool, 2018)
- "Modelling the impact of climate change on vector-borne diseases". Invited seminar and lecturer for the summer school on public Health, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 13 July 2017, by Invitation (University of Bayreuth, 2017)
- Café écolo - L'après COP21: quel accord, quels enjeux, quelle mobilisation citoyenne? + Permanence de Karine Daudicourt at "L'après COP21: quel accord, quels enjeux, quelle mobilisation citoyenne?", by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Old Monkey pub, Manchester, 2016)
- Infectious Science talks in the pub at The four horsemen, climate change and planetary health (Talk/Lecture, Everyman cafe, Liverpool, UK, 2016)
- "Impact du réchauffement climatique sur la santé" at "Impact du réchauffement climatique sur la santé", Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Alliance française, Glasgow, UK, 2015)
- "50 days before COP21" at Impact of climate change on health, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Alliance française Manchester, 2015)
- Café écolo à Liverpool at Comment le dérèglement climatique affecte-t-il notre santé?, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Rococo, Liverpool, 2015)
- Invitation to the 5th International Conference on Drylands, deserts & Desertification - Workshop to draft a concept note on Adaptation - Development options for dry land areas. Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 17-20 Nov, by Invitation (Brandeis University - Ben Gurion University, 2014)
- "Simulating infectious disease risk based on climatic drivers: from numerical weather prediction to long term climate change scenario". World Bank meeting "Reducing Climate Sensitive disease risks", Rockefeller foundation, Bellagio, Italy 21-25 Aug, by Invitation (World Bank, 2012)
- The Liverpool malaria model and its application in Africa at Summer School on “Climate Impacts Modelling for Developing Countries: Water, Agriculture and Health (Talk/Lecture, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 2011)
Examination Roles
- Agricultural Research Centre For International Development, PhD committee for Helene Cecilia (CIRAD - INRA) (2020)
Expert Opinions
- Guest post: Climate change brings threat of ‘bluetongue’ virus to UK farms, Invited (Carbon Brief, 2019)
- A ‘perfect storm’ for the future spread of the Zika virus, Invited (Nature Middle East, 2019)
- Climate change and pestilence: vector-borne diseases in a changing world, Invited (Infectious Disease hub, 2019)
- I worry that climate change could bring malaria to the U.S. Should I, Invited (Yale Climate connections, 2018)
- ‘Brazil failing to address Zika virus conditions’ as climate change increases risk of new outbreak, Invited (Unearthed - Greenpeace, 2017)
- Zika's link to climate change, Invited (Yale University, 2017)
- Climate change could drive a third of parasites to extinction by 2070, Invited (Carbon Brief, 2017)
- Zika outbreak ‘fuelled by’ El Niño and climate change, Invited (Carbon Brief, 2016)
- Modelling Influence of Climate Change on Global Malaria Distribution, Invited (Climate Vulture, 2015)
Internal Administrative or Committee Roles
- Concordat steering group - HLS research rep (University, 2018 - present)
- Task and Finish Group, post-doc research rep (University, 2016 - 2017)
- Co-Chair of IGH Post-doc Association (School / Institute, 2014 - 2018)
Media Appearances
- How climate change could expose new epidemics, AFP for Phys org (Invited, August 2020)
- Klima und COVID-19-Fallzahlen, DeutschlandFunk radio (Invited, August 2020)
- Le billet vert. Le moustique tigre de plus en plus contagieux à cause du réchauffement climatique, France Info (Invited, August 2020)
- AJE, 3 7 20 Zoonoses peut on prévenir les prochaines pandémies, AJE (Invited, July 2020)
- Réchauffement La Terre en 2050, Le Figaro Hors série (Invited, May 2019)
- Climate Change and Infectious Diseases, CHE youtube channel (Invited, December 2019)
- Où sera le palu sur une planète plus chaude ? Teaser, CEA Sciences youtube channel (Invited, November 2018)
- The Effects of Global Climate on Mosquitos and Malaria in the Kilombero Valley, J. Thomas youtube channel (May 2018)
- Spider Silk and Super Fly Senses, BBC World Service (Invited, September 2017)
- El Niño on a warming planet may have sparked the Zika epidemic, scientists report, Washington post (Invited, December 2016)
- Quel impact du changement climatique sur la santé mondiale?, France culture (Invited, May 2016)
- Modeling the impact of climate change on vector-borne diseases, by Cyril Caminade (UK) - 12/19, Aviesan youtube channel (Invited, November 2015)
- Climat: en 2050, gare aux allergies... et aux moustiques!, Sciences et Avenir (Invited, July 2015)
- Lien entre le changement climatique et le paludisme?, Colloque sante-biodiversite website (Invited, October 2014)
- In the eye of the tiger: Global spread of Asian tiger mosquito could fuel outbreaks of tropical disease in temperate regions, Science News (Invited, June 2013)
- The Asian Tiger mosquito: climate controls in Europe, A. Heath youtube channel (February 2011)
Professional Body Memberships
- UN - African Climate Policy Centre (Research climate expert, 2020 - present)
- The New York Academy of Sciences (Professional Member, 2019 - 2020)
- F1000 (Faculty member, 2015 - 2017)
Other Administrative or Committee Roles
- Concordat steering group, University of Liverpool 2018-2019
- Task and Finish Group, University of Liverpool 2016-2017
- Co-Chair of IGH Post-doc Association