From Bytes to Breakthroughs: Decoding the Health Impacts of Climate Change with Big Data
Abstract: I’ll present a brief personal introduction, an overview of my research program, and highlight the goals and approaches of the first two research projects I would complete at The University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health.
Bio: Kyle Aune is an environmental epidemiologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who uses high dimensional climate and other environmental datasets along with data science and spatial statistical methods to answer questions about the health effects of climate change. He earned his PhD in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2022 and holds an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Public Health and a BS in biomedical sciences from Auburn University. His research aims to improve climate threat exposure assessments with big climate data; explore climate and environmental determinants of infectious diseases using existing public datasets, laboratory surveillance data, and large climate datasets as well as through primary data collection; and identify and remedy climate and environmental justice issues.