Urban Climate-Health Resilience: An Economic Analysis of Preventative Interventions Across 11,000 Global Cities
10 Nov 2025
12:30 -14:00
Times are shown in local time
Open to: All
CRASSH-Meeting Room
Alison Richard Building (Sidgwick Site)
7 West Road
CB3 9DP
United Kingdom
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Speaker: Alessa Widmaier, University of Cambridge
Cities are pivotal arenas where climate stressors translate into unequal health risks and system pressures. This research piece develops a place-based model of urban health, combining recent relative-risk functions for heat, air pollution, WASH access and lifestyle factors with city-level disease profiles and projected environmental stressors for over 11,000 cities to 2050. Evidence-based adaptation interventions are evaluated for their effects on health outcomes, healthcare costs, emissions and equity. Results identify where and when prevention yields the highest returns and outline pathways for coordinated implementation across health systems and municipal leadership.
A light lunch will be provided but bring along your drink of choice.
The weekly climaTRACES workshops, organised by Kamiar Mohaddes and Henning Zschietzschmann, are attended by a diverse group of people from economics, geography, politics, engineering, business, earth sciences, natural sciences and history, generating interdisciplinary discussion.
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No registration required. If you have any questions about this seminar, please email Henning Zschietzshmann.
Please note, this workshop is an in-person event but in case you are not able to attend, you can also join the workshop virtually on Zoom.