Dear Colleagues,

Climate-sensitive infectious diseases, including vector borne, water borne, and aerosolized pathogens, are increasingly threatening both vulnerable and resilient human populations as the climate changes. Whether under a scenario of long term changes in average rainfall, temperature, or storm intensity, or in a future of increased extremes, sustained climate events, or abrupt baseline shifts, the impacts of these diseases on human populations will manifest in different ways than at present.

In this Special Issue, we will present a set of papers exploring these links, potential future outcomes, and assessing infectious disease risks due to climate change. Studies aimed at understanding current links between infectious diseases and climate, and those describing and applying frameworks to explore future change, are valuable tools in public health management, and in anticipating future needs. This includes studies of climate sensitive infectious disease dynamics that employ empirical lab and field work and theoretical modeling approaches. We also welcome studies on infectious diseases that consider the interactions between climate and nonclimate drivers (e.g., social vulnerability, immune status, vector control), and studies that consider the secondary effects of climate on infectious disease dynamics, such as disease outbreaks following natural disasters as a result of population displacement, crowding, and stress.

We seek submissions under the broad remit of “Climate Change and Infectious Diseases”, with an eye to collecting together a wealth of research to inform efforts in public health, in preparation for management in a changing world.

Dr. Sadie J. Ryan
Dr. Anna Stewart-Ibarra
Guest Editors

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