Houriiyah Tegally (South Africa), Jenicca Poongavanan (South Africa)
Summary: Researchers in the CLIMADE consortium have spent years, and even decades, training the next generation of virus genomic epidemiologists, many of whom have been critical in our collective response to the pandemic and during other viral epidemics. As the world now faces increasing threats of the intersection between climate change and epidemics, it is critical to equip upcoming scientists with the necessary skills to research this topic. As such, we are developing a short course of advanced analysis of climate change and infectious disease dynamics for the VEME workshop for 2024, which will be a first for this workshop.This short module will involve extracting and visualizing environmental raster files, spatiotemporal regressions of large climatic and epidemiological datasets, and integration of environmental parameters into phylodynamic analyses. This new short module will complement perfectly the other workshop streams at VEME, focused on genomic, phylogenetics and epidemiological analysis of viral pathogens.
Activity Type: Short-course development
CLIMADE Africa