DrBianca van Bavel

Bianca's research applies multidisciplinary, participatory, and mixed evidence synthesis approaches to assessing the direct, indirect, and cascading impacts of climate change on health, with the aim of informing effective adaptation actions that protect health and improve resilience within health systems. Her research interests include: assessing the effectiveness of climate change adaptation; understanding the direct, indirect, and cascading health effects of climate change including exposures to unpreventable environmental impacts and underlying vulnerabilities that exacerbate impacts; measuring the resilience of health and WASH systems to the impacts of climate change; developing and evaluating the effectiveness of decision-support tools for the climate action imperative.