Consortium on Climate Change 
& Population Health
Visit our blog at IGI Global's website The Consortium's purpose is to co-create new interdisciplinary knowledge about climate change and population health using appropriate technological, communications and analytical tools including interactive GIS mapping of observed and predicted climate changes and related population health concerns.
Knowledge bases include water quality, microbiology, marine and freshwater biology, ecology, public policy, ecological economics, infectious and waterborne diseases, climate science, human dimensions and technology. Epidemiologists, economists, biological and climate scientists, policy scholars, are examples of those who will represent these knowledge bases. The resulting joint publications include a book devoted to the Consortium’s outcomes and a special journal edition devoted to lessons learned about e-research, will be outcomes of this project.
Social Mission: The Consortium will create conditions that encourage benefits from the participants’ synergies for those most at risk. The project developers particularly encourage pairings of developing country participants with those from developed countries who can provide access to institutions, researchers, resources and projects that help developing countries with their real and immediate climate and population health needs. Workgroups will be designed with this goal in mind and its achievement will be a specified measure of project success.
In 2009, SeaTrust Institute and IGI Global agreed to convene and host an e-research Consortium on Climate Change and Population Health. This initiative is particularly sensitive to both the scientific and political dimensions of these issues such as are reflected in the work preceeding and outcomes of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. SeaTrust Institute attended the COP 15 meetings to pursue this discussion with global partners as well as those who influence climate related scientific research and policy and will continue the process in 2010 in Cancun, MX.
Calls for participation from relevant disciplinary scholars and practitioners are currently being extended. Please contact the project for information or for an invitation to participate.