Climate Change & Infectious Disease Threats (E1)
June 23-26, 2025  | Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover, Germany
Cecilia Sorensen, Kari C Nadeau, Anna Stewart-Ibarra and Desiree LaBeaud
Scholarship Deadline: Mar. 26, 2025 | Abstract Deadline: Jun. 3, 2025 | Early Registration Deadline: May. 7, 2025
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 4 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Monday, June 23, 2025
4:00–8:00 PM Registration Grand Mussmann Hotel, Tivoli Room
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Central-Hotel Kaiserhof
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
8:00–9:00 AM Breakfast Individual Hotel
8:30–9:00 AM Poster Setup Foyer
8:45–7:00 PM Poster Viewing Foyer
9:00–10:00 AM Welcome and Keynote Address Auditorium
  * Cecilia Sorensen, Columbia University
Session Chair
 
  Anna Stewart-Ibarra, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
Weaving Equitable Research Partnerships to Address the Growing Threat of Climate Change on Public Health
 
10:00–12:00 PM Emerging Zoonosis and Infectious Threats Auditorium
  Tom Hughes, Conservation Medicine
Remote Presenter: Land-use Change Increases Spillover Risk: Novel Zoonotic Viruses in Wildlife and Possible Cryptic Zoonotic Virus Spillover in Humans and Livestock in Malaysia
 
  * Desiree LaBeaud, Stanford University
Extreme Weather Events, Warming and Plastic Pollution Impacts of VBD Spread in Kenya
 
  Harald Renz, Philipps University Marburg
The Bidirectional Relationship Between Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Infectious Diseases – Implications in the Context of Climate Change and Global Health
 
10:40–11:00 AM Coffee Break Foyer
12:00–1:00 PM Lunch Ballroom
12:30–3:00 PM Poster Session 1 Foyer
3:00–4:30 PM Independent Exploration of the Gardens Foyer
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Modeling Health Risks and Outcomes Auditorium
  * Assaf Anyamba, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Session Chair
 
  Neil M Ferguson, Imperial College London
VIMC (Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium) Climate Modelling
 
  Halfan Ngowo, Ifakara Health Institute
Short Talk: Using Bayesian State-Space Models to Understand the Population Dynamics of the Dominant Malaria Vector, Anopheles Funestus in Rural Tanzania
 
  Megan Kowalcyk, University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine
Short Talk: A Multi-Country Analysis of Vulnerability to Climate-Driven Pathogen Specific Moderate to Severe Diarrheal Disease
 
7:00–8:00 PM Dinner Ballroom
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
8:00–9:00 AM Breakfast Individual Hotel
8:30–9:00 AM Poster Setup Foyer
8:45–7:00 PM Poster Viewing Foyer
9:00–12:00 PM Climate Determinants of Public Health Risks Auditorium
  * Kari C Nadeau, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Intersection of Immunology and ID, Multiexposomics, Multiexposure Data
 
  Madeleine Thomson, Wellcome Trust
Basic Principles in Climate and Infectious Disease Research and Practice
 
  Mauricio Santos Vega, Universidad de los Andes
Short Talk: Temperature and Competition: Key Drivers in the Ecological Dynamics of Aedes Mosquitoes and Dengue Spread
 
  Brenda Zai, University of Guelph
Short Talk: Identification of Criteria for the Prioritization of Climate-Sensitive Preharvest Food Safety Risks: an Expert-Informed Approach
 
  Raquel Palasio, USP
Short Talk: Exploring Climate, Environmental, Mobility, and Socioeconomic Factors in Chikungunya Spread Across Brazil
 
  Rodrigo de Sá Figueirêdo Meira Teles, Zarns Medical College
Short Talk: Severe Droughts and the Tuberculosis Care Cascade in the Brazilian Amazon: A Bayesian Structural Time Series Analysis of 23 Years of Surveillance Data
 
  Karina Tapinova, Medical University of Vienna
Short Talk: Predictive Models for Climate-Related Emergency Health Care Utilisation: a Scoping Review
 
  Alex Eapen, Indian Council of Medical Research - National Institute of Malaria Research
Short Talk: Impact of Climate Change on Disease Transmission Potential of Anopheles Stephensi, Urban Malaria Vector in India - Challenges for Malaria Elimination
 
10:00–10:20 AM Coffee Break Foyer
10:20–10:25 AM Award Recipient Acknowledgement Auditorium
12:00–1:00 PM Lunch Ballroom
12:30–2:30 PM Poster Session 2 Foyer
2:30–3:45 PM Climate Change, Infectious Diseases, and the Growing Divide in Health Outcomes Auditorium
  * Anna Stewart-Ibarra, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
Session Chair
 
  Guido Pisani, MIT
Climate Change and Lyme Disease: Expanding the Impact on Women’s Reproductive Health
 
  Elizabeth Maloney, Institut Pasteur
Temperature Affects Immune Responses in a Sex-Biased Manner
 
  Mariana Baricco, CONICET
Socioeconomic Inequality, Poverty, and Climate Change Have Driven the Global Expansion of Dengue Over the Past 50 Years
 
  Matylda Buczkowska, UCL
Investigating the Links Between Extreme Weather Events, Financial Insecurity, Migration, and Risky Sexual Behaviours in Southern and Eastern Africa
 
4:00–5:00 PM Panel Discussion: Embedding Policy in your Research Plans to Influence Change in Climate and Health Practice Auditorium
  * Madeleine Thomson, Wellcome Trust
Moderator
 
  Wilmot James, Brown University
Remote Panelist
 
  Kari C Nadeau, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
 
  Avriel Diaz, Columbia University
 
  Harald Renz, Philipps University Marburg
 
5:00–5:30 PM Coffee Available Foyer
5:30–7:00 PM AI and Data Science -Benefits, Ethical Considerations, Biases - Data that Informs it is not Representative Auditorium
  * Zulma M Cucunubá Pérez, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Session Chair
 
  Stella Hartinger Peña, Cayetano Heredia University
Remote Presentation: Creating Regional Indicators to Track Infectious Disease Outcomes in South America
 
  Roberto C Baldizon, Silibrain LLC
Leveraging AI for Climate-Sensitive Disease Detection: Enhancing Rapid Testing Through Patient and Environmental Data Correlation
 
  Chloé Morin, Institut Louis Malardé
Short Talk: BRIGHT Pacific: A Digital Platform to Strengthen Pacific Islands Health Research Collaboration
 
  Sally Jahn, Imperial
Short Talk: Robustness of Weather and Climate Information for Decision-Making: Evaluating the Role of Observational Uncertainty in Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Vector-Borne Diseases
 
7:00–8:00 PM Dinner Ballroom
Thursday, June 26, 2025
8:00–9:00 AM Breakfast Individual Hotel
9:00–12:00 PM Early Warning Systems Auditorium
  * Mauricio Santos Vega, Universidad de los Andes
Session Chair
 
  Assaf Anyamba, University of Maryland Baltimore County
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Teleconnections and Rift Valley fever Early Warning
 
  Avriel Diaz, Columbia University
Co-Producing a Budget Forecasting System for Vector-Borne Diseases in Panama Using Climate Information
 
  Adria San Jose Plana, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Disentangling Interannual Climate Drivers to Support Long-Lead Forecasting of Climate-Sensitive Disease Risk
 
  Kulandaisamy A Mary, Vector Control Research Centre
Short Talk: Dengue Awareness and Source Reduction in Hotspot Area of Lawspet Constituency, Puducherry Union Territory, India
 
  Kamil Erguler, The Cyprus Institute
Short Talk: Novel Technologies and Ensemble Modelling for Climate-Sensitive Vector Activity and Vector-Borne Disease Risk Assessment
 
  Anne E Rittscher-Fogg, Utrecht University
Short Talk: Innovative Methods of Environmental Monitoring for Early Infectious Disease Detection at the One Health Interface
 
10:00–10:20 AM Coffee Break Foyer
12:00–1:00 PM Funding Opportunities Panel Discussion Auditorium
  * Anna Stewart-Ibarra, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
Moderator
 
  Madhav Joshi, India Health Fund
Remote Panelist
 
  Judy Omumbo, Science for Africa Foundation
 
  Tatjana Gust, Bayer Foundation
 
  Alexander Pym, Wellcome Trust
 
1:00–2:00 PM Lunch Ballroom
2:00–3:00 PM Career Roundtable Foyer
  Eduardo Krempser da Silva, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)
Public Health Researcher
 
  Sulaiman Sadi Ibrahim, Bayero University Kano
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Wellcome Trust Career Development Award Fellow
 
  Julie Tai-Schmiedel, Nature Microbiology
Senior Editor
 
2:45–3:15 PM Coffee Available Foyer
3:15–4:30 PM Mitigation and Health/Economic Co-Benefits Auditorium
  * Cecilia Sorensen, Columbia University
Session Chair
 
  Liz Willetts,  International Institute for Sustainable Development
Remote Presenter: Mitigation Across Global Climate and Biodiversity Agreements
 
  Breanna B Raymond, Simon Fraser University
Climate Change Impacts on Early-Life Immune System Development
 
4:30–4:45 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) Auditorium
4:45–5:45 PM Happy Hour w/ Snacks Foyer
Friday, June 27, 2025
12:00–11:59 PM Departure