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DESCRIPTION:Josiah Kephart\, PhD\, MPH\n\nAssistant Professor | Department 
 of Environmental and Occupational Health | Drexel University\n\nWhere: Vir
 tual | Zoom \n\nAbstract\n\nClimate change and urbanization are rapidly in
 creasing the frequency and intensity of extreme ambient temperatures. Curr
 ent evidence on the impacts of temperature on health is heavily concentrat
 ed in high-income countries. Few studies have examined extreme temperature
 s and health in Latin America\, where 80% of residents live in urban areas
  and extreme temperatures are projected to dramatically increase in the co
 ming decades. This seminar will highlight evidence from the Salud Urbana e
 n América Latina (Urban Health in Latin America) project. We examined over
  15 million deaths from 326 cities in nine countries in Latin America to e
 stimate the contributions of daily ambient temperature to cause- and age-s
 pecific mortality. We found that a substantial proportion of deaths are at
 tributable to hot and cold ambient temperatures and that older populations
  are particularly vulnerable. We will also discuss findings on the role of
  socioeconomic status as a modifier of the temperature-mortality relations
 hip. Together\, this evidence makes a compelling case for policymakers to 
 prioritize actions to prevent present and future health risks of extreme t
 emperatures and highlights the importance of conducting context-specific a
 nalyses of climate change and health in understudied low- and middle-incom
 e countries.\n\nLearning Objectives\n\n\n	Review the state of evidence on e
 xtreme temperatures and health globally and summarize differences in findi
 ngs and strength of evidence between global regions\n	Describe methods and 
 findings from studies of extreme temperatures and cause-specific mortality
  in 326 Latin American cities\n	Discuss knowledge gaps in climate change an
 d health in low- and middle-income countries and the importance of context
 -specific analyses in understudied regions\n\n\nSpeaker Bio\n\nJosiah Keph
 art\, PhD\, MPH is an assistant professor in the Department of Environment
 al and Occupational Health and the Urban Health Collaborative at the Dorns
 ife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Kephart’s research focus
 es on understanding the contribution of climate change\, air pollution\, a
 nd the urban environment to health disparities in Latin America and the US
 . He received an MPH and PhD in environmental epidemiology and exposure sc
 ience from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health\, where he 
 was awarded an NIH Fogarty Global Health Fellowship.\n\nPresented as part 
 of the Epidemiology Seminar Series\n\nThe Department of Epidemiology\, Bio
 statistics and Occupational Health Seminar Series is a self-approved Group
  Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the maintenance of certificat
 ion program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada\n
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SUMMARY:Rescheduled: Climate change and health equity: extreme temperatures
  and mortality in highly urbanized Latin America 
URL:/epi-biostat-occh/channels/event/rescheduled-clima
 te-change-and-health-equity-extreme-temperatures-and-mortality-highly-urba
 nized-344517
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