| Descripción |
"The main goal of the group is to perform world class scientific research on climate and health sciences, with especial emphasis on how environmental conditions and climate change affect human health.
Our overarching aim is to jointly analyse the environmental (climate variability, air pollution, desert dust and infectious diseases) and socioeconomic (macroeconomy, ageing, inequality and gender gap) drivers of recent trends in public health, focusing on human mortality, hospital admissions, occupational accidents and maternal and child health.
We are also analysing weather and climate predictability at a range of timescales, from days to seasons, so that it can be used for the generation of skilful early warning systems of disease risk. Our ultimate goal is to improve the well-being of societies by increasing human resilience and adaptation to climate variability and change."
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| Proyectos destacados |
- Feb’21-Jan’26: Project name: Signs of Early Adaptation to Climate Change (EARLY-ADAPT). Call: ERC Consolidator Grants 2019 (ERC-2019-COG). Funder: European Research Council (ERC). Centre: Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). Role: Coordinator. Budget: 2,000,000.00€. (https://www.early-adapt.eu/)
- Oct’22-Mar’24: Project name: Operational Heat-Health-Social Early Warning System (HHS-EWS). Call: ERC Proof of Concept (ERC-2022-PoC1). Funder: European Research Council (ERC). Centre: Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). Role: Coordinator. Budget: 150,000.00€. (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101069213)
- Apr’24-Sep’25: Project name: Open-Access Forecasting System of the Health Effects of Air Pollution (FORECAST-AIR). Call: ERC Proof of Concept (ERC-2023-PoC). Funder: European Research Council (ERC). Centre: Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). Role: Coordinator. Budget: 150,000.00€. (https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2023-05/erc-2023-poc-1-results-list.pdf)
- Sep’22-Aug’27: Project name: Climate Action to Advance Healthy Societies in Europe (CATALYSE). Call: Health impacts of climate change, costs and benefits of action and inaction (HORIZON-HLTH-2021-ENVHLTH-02-03). Funder: European Commission. Centre: Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). Role: Task Leader. Budget (total): 230,892.52€ (10,354,021.00€). (https://catalysehorizon.eu/)
- Jan’23-Dec’26: Project name: Adapting to temperature extremes in a changing climate: Past trends and future scenarios (ADATES). Call: Cross-Cutting Climate Adaptation – challenges and measures. Funder: Swedish Research Council (FORMAS). Centre: Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). Role: Principal Investigator. Budget (total): 2,430,000.00kr (11,984,110.00kr). (https://formas.se/en/start-page/archive/calls/2022-02-09-cross-cutting-climate-adaptation---challenges-and-measures.html (https://formas.se/en/start-page/archive/calls/2022-02-09-cross-cutting-climate-adaptation---challenges-and-measures.html))
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| Publicaciones destacadas |
- Ballester J, Quijal-Zamorano M, Méndez Turrubiates RF, Pegenaute F, Herrmann FR, Robine JM, Basagaña X, Tonne C, Antó JM, Achebak H. Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022. Nature Medicine 29, 1857-1866 (2023). (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02419-z)
- van Daalen KR, Romanello M, Rocklöv J, Semenza JC, Tonne C, Markandya A, Dasandi N, Jankin S, Achebak H, Ballester J, et al. The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: towards a climate resilient future. The Lancet Public Health 7, e942-e965 (2022). (https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00197-9)
- Ballester J, Rodó X, Robine JM, Herrmann FR. European seasonal mortality and influenza incidence due to winter temperature variability. Nature Climate Change 6, 927-930 (2016). (https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3070)
- Cash BA, Rodó X, Ballester J, Bouma MJ, Dhiman R, Pascual M. Malaria epidemics highlight influence of the Tropical South Atlantic on the Indian monsoons. Nature Climate Change 3, 502-507 (2013). (https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1834)
- Martínez-Solanas È, Quijal-Zamorano M, Achebak H, Petrova D, Robine JM, Herrmann FR, Rodó X, Ballester J. Projections of temperature attributable mortality in Europe: a timeseries analysis in 147 contiguous regions. The Lancet Planetary Health 5, e446-e454 (2021). (https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00150-9)
- Quijal-Zamorano M, Martínez-Solanas È, Achebak H, Petrova D, Robine JM, Herrmann FR, Rodó X, Ballester J. Seasonality reversal of temperature attributable mortality projections due to previously unobserved extreme heat in Europe. The Lancet Planetary Health 5, e573-e575 (2021). (https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00211-4)
- Achebak H, Devolder D, Ballester J. Trends in temperature-related age-specific and sex-specific mortality from cardiovascular diseases in Spain: a national time-series analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health 3, e297-e306 (2019). (https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(19)30090-7)
- Achebak H, Devolder D, Ingole V, Ballester J. Reversal of the seasonality of temperature-attributable mortality from respiratory diseases in Spain. Nature Communications 11, 2457 (2020). (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16273-x)
- Ballester J, Robine JM, Herrmann FR, Rodó X. Effect of the Great Recession on regional mortality trends in Europe. Nature Communications 19, 679 (2019). (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08539-w)
- Achebak H, Petetin H, Quijal-Zamorano M, Bowdalo D, Pérez García-Pando C, Ballester J. Reduction in air pollution and attributable mortality due to COVID-19 lockdown. The Lancet Planetary Health 4, e268 (2020). (https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30148-0)
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