Dr Malcolm N. Mistry, PhD, AF HEA.
Assistant Professor in Climate and Geo-Spatial Modelling
United Kingdom
I am an Asst. Professor in Climate and Geo-spatial Modelling, with a background and training in environmental epidemiology, econometrics and sectoral impacts assessment of climate change and variability. I specialise in real-time monitoring and forecast of heat stress and the associated mortality, and the development of Early Action Protocols for heat and health. Having developed programming skills during my under-graduate and post-graduate degree programmes, I am passionate about coding, especially developing workflows on cloud platforms for processing terabytes of earth data. I am also passionate about communicating science to the wider public, by visiting schools and engaging with media organisations to promote greater awareness of extremes in climate and its associated impacts.
I have previously held academic and research positions at Unive, the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) - Italy, and Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) - Spain. Beyond research and academia, I sailed as a navigating officer onboard research and seismic survey ships, engaged in data acquisition of seabed profiles.
Affiliations
Teaching
I teach in the below modules of the following four MSc programmes - Public Health, Health Data Science, Medical Statistics, and Climate Change & Planetary Health (CCPH):
- Methods in Climate Change and Planetary Health [2607]
- Spatial Epidemiology [3135]
- Environmental Epidemiology [1301]
- Programming (R and Python) [2486]
- Introduction to Statistical Computing [2031]
In addition, I was a co-Module Organiser of the 'Methods in Climate Change and Planetary Health module [2607] in MSc CCPH', and Module Organiser of the 'Environmental Health Policy [1300] module in MSc Public Health'.
I am currently supervising two summer projects:
(i) MSc CCPH: Associations between temperature/air pollution and mortality in Italian metropolitan cities
(ii) MSc Health Data Science: Development of a Python library for Distributed Lag Nonlinear Models (DLNM)
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Research
Am part of the Environment and Health Modelling (EHM) Lab (https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/ehm-lab) that focuses on developing and applying state-of-the-art modelling tools to investigate environmental health risks,. My research interests include big data, sectoral impacts of climate change and variability, development of climate extreme and heat stress indices for health impacts assessment and geospatial analysis. My other interests include High Performance Computing (HPC) and climate data visualisation.
Am an avid user of Google Earth Engine, Python and R and to a lesser extent Julia. Previously, I was a co-admin of the LSHTM R Users Group (https://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/rusers/), and also co-organised the Climate Change & Planetary Health (CCPH) monthly research corner meetings.
I am a co-Investigator on the following research project:
- Combined impact of heat and air pollution exposure on human health in India: Evidence and solutions (COPE) (funded by the Belmont Forum, Climate Environment and Health - Norwegian Research Council, NSF, UKRI and FutureEarth)
Previous completed projects include:
- Mortality Risk Attributable to Thermal Discomfort Indicators with Implications of Climate Change (MORDIC, Funded by the European Commission as part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship)
- EXHAUSTION, Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
Selected Publications
