Vicedo Cabrera Ana Maria, Prof., PhD

I am an environmental epidemiologist with a research focus on the impact of climate change on human health. I am currently an SNSF Starting Grant 2022 grantee with a project entitled "ACTUAL - Advancing knowledge on extreme humid heat and health".

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 am a contributing author of the 6^th Assessment Report (working group II chapter 16) of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). I recently participated as chapter author of the last book of Greta Thunberg (The Climate Book).

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. In Switzerland, I am a member of the Atmospheric Chemistry and Pollution Committee of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT).