The Climate and Environmental History Seminar: Climate's Health Impact

Image: Goran Vignjević (photo), Sassa Chen (graphic design)

The intensifying impacts of climate change on human health represent a significant global health threat of this century. What lessons can be drawn from the past? This talk provides an overview of the climate influence on malaria-related mortality during the late pre-industrial Sweden 1749–1859. The findings reveal a discernible climate-related impact on health in the Nordic region, albeit with observed shifts in temporal and spatial patterns from the historical data spanning over a century.

About the speaker

Sassa Chen, recently finished her PhD in geography at University of Gothenburg on
pre-industrial mortality and malaria in Sweden. She now works at the Public
Health Agency of Sweden investigating the impacts of climate change on the health risk, vulnerability and capacity of Swedish society.

Join on Zoom: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/67925090294