Vicedo Cabrera Ana Maria, Prof., PhD

I am an environmental epidemiologist with a research focus on the impact of climate change and, more generally, climate-related hazards on human health. I am currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Bern. In January 2025, I will become Associate Professor for Climate Change Impact on Public Health in the Built Environment, funded by the Mobiliar Cooperative.

My current research develops along the intersection between epidemiology, public health and climate sciences to understand how different climate factors and other related environmental stressors affect health in the context of climate change. I have wide expertise in epidemiological assessments of the health effects of climate, weather and other climate-related environmental exposures such as air pollution. I am particularly interested in developing interdisciplinary research lines around the topics of health impact attribution, compound events and health impact projections in collaboration with climate change experts from other fields. I have led and contributed to several international epidemiological studies on climate change impacts, in particular within the Multi-City Multi-Country (MCC) Collaborative Research Network.

I currently hold a SNSF Starting Grant with a project entitled "ACTUAL - Advancing knowledge on extreme humid heat and health" (June 2023 - May 2028). I am also leading the NCCS-Impacts-Health project, a collaborative project funded by the National Center for Climate Services in Switzerland (February 2023 - December 2025). More recently, I have received an award from Wellcome Trust on a project entitled TACTIC ("Health impact toolkit for climate change attribution").

I have led and collaborated on research projects funded by national and international agencies (e.g., H2020, Medical Research Council UK) on the same topic. I am a member of the Environment and Health Committee of the European Respiratory Society and an elected member of the Europe Chapter of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. I am a contributing author of the 6^th Assessment Report (working group II chapter 16) of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and recently participated as chapter author of the last book of Greta Thunberg (The Climate Book).