FXB Center Work in Progress Seminar: How hot is it really? Quantifying the impact of heat on the lives and livelihoods of workers

Date and Time: Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 1:00p.m. – 2:00p.m. ET

Location: Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Ave (Level 7), Boston, MA 02115

This event is only open to HUID holders. Preregistration is required. Please email Claire Street at cstreet@hsph.harvard.edu to register.

Description: As days get hotter and summers longer, we do not yet know what the impact of this extreme heat exposure will be on the lives and livelihoods of the poorest – the world’s labor force that works outdoors or in poorly ventilated indoor settings. How do global averages of 1.5 and 2 translate to the lived experiences of those most at risk? Our team is working on quantifying the impact of heat and humidity in the microenvironment that the poor work and live in, on their health, wellbeing, and wages. In collaboration with hundreds of workers from the Self Employed Women’s Association, our interdisciplinary team at the Salata South Asia Climate Adaptation Cluster is following hundreds of workers across indoor and outdoor occupations using microsensors, biosensors, and biomarkers.

Moderator:

Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc, FXB Director of Research

Jacqueline Bhabha is a Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is also the Director of Research at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. She received a first class honors degree and an M.Sc. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the College of Law in London.

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Speaker:

Satchit Balsari, MD, MPH, FXB Faculty Affiliate

Dr. Satchit Balsari is Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and in the department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Balsari’s research and teaching is focused on complex humanitarian emergencies and digital health implementation science in resource poor settings. He has worked with populations affected by disaster, war and the COVID-19 pandemic in Iraq, South Sudan, Jordan, Haiti, Puerto Rico and across South Asia. In the most vulnerable communities in the world, his team has leveraged cutting edge digital tools and citizen science to advance public health planning, advocacy and response. Dr. Balsari has been affiliated with the Harvard FXB Center for nearly two decades.

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Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, not for Harvard University.