This article features research by IBES and Epidemiology Assistant Professor Rachel Baker and IBES graduate affiliate Aleksandra Stamper, a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Health.
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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Aleksandra Stamper
Graduate Affiliate, Epidemiology
Degree expected
2028
Biography
I am a PhD student working with Dr. Rachel Baker to study the impact of climate-related variables on disease transmission. My focus for this semester is studying how different environmental factors (humidity, temperature, and precipitation) may impact flu transmission.
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Researchers find that weather and climate patterns can help predict the timing and severity of flu outbreaks across diverse regions, and that flu spreads more easily in very dry and very humid air.
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IBES and Epidemiology Assistant Professor Rachel Baker contributed to this paper, led by graduate affiliate Aleksandra Stamper.
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Nature Medicine
Climate change and infectious diseases
Rachel Baker, an assistant professor in IBES and the Department of Epidemiology, and Aleksandra Stamper, an IBES graduate affiliate in the School of Public Health, are the first and second authors, respectively, of this review paper.
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