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DESCRIPTION:Abstract: There is clear evidence that climate change will alte
 r the timing\, intensity\, and geographic range of infectious disease outb
 reaks with important implications for public health. Nevertheless\, the me
 chanistic links between climate and infectious disease transmission\, part
 icularly for respiratory infections\, remain incompletely resolved. Conseq
 uently\, models that incorporate climate into disease transmission largely
  rely on the use of statistical methods to regress the time-varying transm
 ission rate derived from epidemiological data against climate variables\, 
 despite there being many insufficiencies to these approaches. In this talk
 \, we will discuss known climate-sensitive biophysical drivers of a broad 
 range of infectious diseases\, including vector- and water-borne infection
 s. We will then focus on our work in the area of respiratory infections\, 
 unraveling the biophysics of aerosol-based transmission in complex mucosal
 ivary fluids.\n\nSpeaker Biography:\n\nCaroline Wagner is an Assistant Pro
 fessor in the Department of Bioengineering at McGill University. She holds
  an MSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT\, where she used experi
 ment and theory to study the microscopic and macroscopic rheological prope
 rties of mucus. She then trained as a postdoctoral fellow in mathematical 
 disease modeling at Princeton University. Her research program focusses on
  understanding interactions between pathogens and biological fluids\, and 
 modeling the effect of such interactions on population-level disease trans
 mission and dynamics. During the Covid-19 pandemic\, Caroline and her coll
 eagues developed models to explore the effect of various factors including
  immune responses\, vaccine dose spacing\, and vaccine nationalism on the 
 future burden and timing of Covid-19 infections. This work resulted in thr
 ee publications in the journal Science\, and has been covered in numerous 
 media outlets including Quebec Science\, La Presse\, and Wired.\n\nRegistr
 ation\n
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LOCATION:2001 McGill College Avenue\, 11th floor\, room 1140 or via ZOOM
SUMMARY:Unraveling the biophysical mechanistic links between climate change
  and infectious disease transmission
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/unraveling-biophysical-me
 chanistic-links-between-climate-change-and-infectious-disease-transmission
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