My research centers on understanding the role of humidity in heat related health impacts from an epidemiological perspective, with insights from compound events and climate change impacts research.
One of my PhD projects aims to explore the causal pathways underlying the associations between humidity, heat and health impacts through ‘Directed Acyclic Graphs’ (DAGs). This project will explicitly characterise the causal assumptions in various study designs exploring the role of humidity in heat stress.
In another project, I focus on an impact based, bottom-up approach for exploring the role of humidity in high heat-related mortality events. Using daily data on all-cause mortality, temperature, and humidity from more than 700 cities across the world and applied state-of-the-art epidemiological models to compute the daily observed total mortality counts attributable to heat-stress, the goal is to employ strategies of identifying key drivers of compound events to explore the role played by humidity in high impact events.
