External Collaborators
Sweden
Chuansi Gao, PhD, Co-PI
Dr. Gao is a professor in Lund University’s Department of Design Sciences. His research focuses on the effects of thermal climate factors on physiological response and health and strategies to cope with heat stress and prevent heat-induced illnesses. He is the lead PI of the EU H2020 project, a Swedish Sustainable indoor environment project, translating climate service information into personalized adaptation strategies to cope with thermal climate stress.
Hajnalka Bodnar
Hajnalka Bodnar holds an M. Sc. in Foreign Trade Economics and an M.B.A. degree from the Corvinus University of Budapest in Hungary. She worked several years at various Hungarian universities where her main role was to develop and organize M.B.A. programs.
Jakob Petersson
Jakob has received a Master of Science degree in Applied Climate Strategies and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Physics with specialization in Meteorology from Lund University in Sweden. His BSc project work was carried out at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC) and focused on the change in extreme temperatures in Sweden.Taiwan
Yu-Chun Wang, PhD, Co-Pi
Dr. Wang is a professor and chairman in Chung Yuan Christian University’s Department of Environmental Engineering. Her research focuses on extreme event related infectious diseases including diarrhea, enterovirus infections and influenza. Dr. Wang has received several government grants to conduct in-depth assessments of temperature thresholds for national health warning systems, and to develop health education materials for extreme heat events.
Ayushi Sharma, PhD Student
Ayushi is very passionate about the role of environment and climate change in shaping the health dynamics of communities in low- and middle-income countries. During her stay in Taiwan, she will focus on addressing extreme weather-related diarrheal disease risk in the Asia Pacific Region, with a particular emphasis on enteric fever (typhoid) incidence in India.
Kung-Yueh Camyale Chao, PhD
Dr. Chao is the executive director of the International Climate Development Institute in Taiwan. He has been working in the field of public policy for 20 years, focusing on community capacity building and community-based adaptation (CBA) policy surrounding climate change. He was the General Secretary of the International Forum of Meteorological Societies (IFMS) now serving as the Treasurer of IFMS since Sep 2019Bangladesh
Mohammad Sohel Shomik, PhD
Dr. Shomik works at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), a leading health research organization that has been conducting cutting edge research and implementing evidence-based intervention programs to reduce diarrheal disease morbidity and mortality in Bangladesh for more than 50 years.
Hossain Zillur Rahman, PhD
Dr. Rahman is the founder of an independent think tank, Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC). As a poverty researcher, he has played a major role in bringing national attention to the problem of extreme poverty.India
Veena Iyer, MD
Dr. Iyer is a medical doctor and a professor at the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar. Her research interests are focused on public health surveillance and infectious diseases. Dr. Iyer has mapped the comparative burden of common infectious diseases in Gujarat. She also also volunteered with the United Nations as Medical Doctor at Accident and Emergency Services.
Sambuddha Chaudhuri, PhD
His current research focuses on infectious diseases and includes a history of Tuberculosis Control Programmes in India and health communication among marginalized communitiesNepal
Megnath Dhimal
Dr. Dhimal has conducted several research studies in Nepal investigating the impact of climate change on infectious disease, and has published over 100 scientific articles, and technical reports. He is currently chairing the global health working group at the Global Young Academy.Vietnam
Dang Thi Anh Thu, MD
Dr. Dang Thi Anh Thu is the Vice-Dean of Public Health Faculty and Vice-Director of Hue University’s Institute for Community Health Research. She has extensive experience working with international researchers to implement studies on various climate change related public health threats. Her research focuses on environmental, community, and occupational health as well as health risk assessment.
Tran Ngoc Dang, PhD
Dr. Tran Ngoc Dan is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, located in Ho Chi Minh City. Dr. Tran Ngoc Dan has solid expertise on health impact assessment (HIA) methods and tools, as well as risk assessment with a focus on the impact of climate change, as well as impacts of air pollution on health.China
