Vaccination in a changing climate: Yellow fever as a case study
Examining how climate change is reshaping yellow fever risk distribution and its impact on vaccination strategy
Yellow fever (YF) is reemerging as a significant public health threat, with transmission patterns highly sensitive to climate change. Vaccination remains the sole effective control measure yet funding faces increasing pressure, making strategic resource allocation critical.
This talk examines how climate change is reshaping yellow fever risk distribution and presents methods for calculating vaccine impact under evolving conditions. Using YF as a case study, Katy will demonstrate how shifting transmission patterns and changing public health priorities may affect future vaccination strategies, and discuss key considerations for optimising vaccine deployment in resource-constrained settings facing climate-sensitive disease threats.
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Dr Katy Gaythorpe
Dr Katy Gaythorpe is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London and the research lead of the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium (VIMC).
Her research focuses on developing mathematical models of infectious diseases such as yellow fever, norovirus, and others to assess the health impacts of vaccination. Dr Gaythorpe is particularly interested in the implications of climate change for climate-sensitive vaccine-preventable disease control; she is a co-investigator of the VIMC climate change programme and an advisor to the WHO EYE strategy risk analysis working group.
She is also a member of the Imperial College COVID-19 and Ebola Response Teams, developing the UK data pipeline for real-time modelling at Imperial for the former, and deploying to support data analytics at WHO HQ for the latter.
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