Marissa Childs, PhD

Marissa Childs's research explores how large-scale environmental changes — like climate change and land use change — affect human health. Her work uses remote sensing and modeling to quantify nonlinear and context-dependent effects of environmental change. In particular, some of her past and ongoing work has focused on predicting yellow fever virus spillover in Brazil, projecting changes in dengue incidence from climate warming, producing granular estimates of wildfire smoke exposure throughout the contiguous US, and understanding climate-sensitive diseases in Madagascar.