Studying the short and long-term impact of climate and climate change on infectious and chronic diseases

Many diseases are increasing in incidence and/or geographical distribution, reinvading into areas once previously eradicated and emerging in new regions due to climate change. This proposal takes Singapore as the study setting as well as fine-scale climate change projections to: (1) understanding the implications of climate change on infectious and chronic diseases (2) understanding the resultant economic impacts of respective diseases conditional on different climate change scenarios.