Ocean, desert rainfall and a parasitic disease: researchers connect patterns

By Adrià San José Plana, Recognised Researcher Earth Sciences - Global Health Resilience, Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS); Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
Xavier Rodo, ICREA Research Professor, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)

Climate does more than shape the weather. It can influence when and where infectious diseases emerge by changing how disease-carrying vectors and animal hosts survive and behave. Scientists use weather data to anticipate some disease risks days or weeks ahead. But forecasting how those risks will change across seasons and years remains difficult. We asked Adrià San José Plana, a researcher in infectious disease modelling, and Xavier Rodó, a research professor and founding director of the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences in Barcelona, about their recent research.

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