As Director of the Center for Climate Change and Health Equity, Kelly Baker's work focuses upon growth of a collaborative climate and health research community at UB that works with communities and public institutions to improve climate preparedness and resilience to future extreme weather conditions.

Her personal transdisciplinary impact-focused research identifies community development, behavioral, and diagnostic interventions that can be used to prevent infectious disease transmission between humans, animals, and the environment, with a focus on enteric viral, bacterial, and parasites spread by human and animal feces. Work on climate preparedness for infectious disease control encompasses impacts of neighborhood poverty and underdevelopment on flood borne diarrheal and enteric fever disease in Kenya, climate adaption to drought on child malnutrition in Ethiopia, determinants of guinea worm transmission in Ethiopia, and extreme weather impacts on microbial water contamination in rural America.

Ongoing collaboration with the biotech industry and partners in Asia and New York is evaluating the technical performance, usability, and field readiness of new rapid diagnostic and surveillance tools for detection of antimicrobial resistant Cholera, Shigella, and Salmonella bacteria. 0

Kelly Baker, PhD
Director, Center for Climate Change and Health Equity
University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions

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