As days get hotter and summers longer, we do not yet know what the impact of this extreme heat exposure will be on the lives and livelihoods of the poorest – the world’s labor force that works outdoors or in poorly ventilated indoor settings. How do global averages of 1.5 and 2 translate to the lived experiences of those most at risk? In collaboration with hundreds of workers from the Self Employed Women’s Association, an interdisciplinary team at the Salata South Asia Climate Adaptation Cluster is following hundreds of workers across indoor and outdoor occupations using microsensors, biosensors, and biomarkers. The team is working on quantifying the impact of heat and humidity in the microenvironment that the poor work and live in on their health, well-being, and wages.
Moderator: Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Speaker: Satchit Balsari, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Co-Director of the Mittal Institute Climate Platform; Mittal Institute Steering Committee member
This event is only open to HUID holders. Preregistration is required. Please email Claire Street at cstreet@hsph.harvard.edu to register.
