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Each seminar will be organized to provide basic information on various aspects of environmental change and human health, to communicate present activities and institutional capabilities in related areas (including, ongoing research, relevant data sets, core tools, facilities, models, etc.), and to identify areas where new research linkages could be established. To help coordinate and to effectively utilize our seminar time we will make use of a home page (www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/~CCHH). Background information on environmental change and human health is presented there, and for each seminar topic some suggested reading materials are identified.

SEMINAR SCHEDULE

September 25: Climate Change & Human Health Overview -- We will begin the series with an overview of the nature of the relationship between climate change and human health. This will include a discussion of the state of the science of climate change, and what the present studies are telling us about our possible future climate. We will also discuss the basic tools (e.g., GIS) and data set available on campus for use in climate/environmental changes research.