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Overview

Clare Heaviside is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on the intersections of climate change, environmental health, and urban environments.

The main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this broad field, they have contributed notably to the following subfields:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Environmental Engineering
  • General Health Professions
  • Physiology
  • Health

The research topics frequently addressed by Clare Heaviside include:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Thermoregulation and physiological responses
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Recent significant publications authored or co-authored by Clare Heaviside are:

  • The winter urban heat island: Impacts on cold-related mortality in a highly urbanized European region for present and future climate (2021, Environment International)
  • Food security among dryland pastoralists and agropastoralists: The climate, land-use change, and population dynamics nexus (2021, The Anthropocene Review)
  • Commonly used indices disagree about the effect of moisture on heat stress (2023, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science)
  • Evidence of horizontal urban heat advection in London using six years of data from a citizen weather station network (2022, Environmental Research Letters)
  • Comparing temperature-related mortality impacts of cool roofs in winter and summer in a highly urbanized European region for present and future climate (2021, Environment International)

They have published frequently in these venues:

  • Environment International
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Buildings and Cities
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Anthropocene Review

Clare Heaviside collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Charles Simpson
  • Oscar Brousse
  • Jonathon Taylor
  • Michael Davies
  • Helen L. Macintyre

Best Publications

  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future.

    Marina Romanello;Alice McGushin;Claudia Di Napoli;Paul Drummond

  • Projections of temperature-related excess mortality under climate change scenarios

    Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Yuming Guo;Francesco Sera;Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera

  • The Urban Heat Island: Implications for Health in a Changing Environment.

    Clare Heaviside;Clare Heaviside;Clare Heaviside;Helen Macintyre;Sotiris Vardoulakis;Sotiris Vardoulakis

  • Health and climate related ecosystem services provided by street trees in the urban environment

    Jennifer A. Salmond;Marc Tadaki;Sotiris Vardoulakis;Sotiris Vardoulakis;Sotiris Vardoulakis;Katherine Arbuthnott;Katherine Arbuthnott

  • Climate change effects on human health: projections of temperature-related mortality for the UK during the 2020s, 2050s and 2080s

    Shakoor Hajat;Sotiris Vardoulakis;Clare Heaviside;Bernd Eggen

  • Attributing human mortality during extreme heat waves to anthropogenic climate change

    Daniel Mitchell;Clare Heaviside;Sotiris Vardoulakis;Chris Huntingford

  • Impact of climate change on the domestic indoor environment and associated health risks in the UK

    Sotiris Vardoulakis;Sotiris Vardoulakis;Sotiris Vardoulakis;Chrysanthi Dimitroulopoulou;John Thornes;John Thornes;Ka Man Lai

  • Attribution of mortality to the urban heat island during heatwaves in the West Midlands, UK

    Clare Heaviside;Clare Heaviside;Sotiris Vardoulakis;Sotiris Vardoulakis;Xiao-Ming Cai

  • Comparative Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Heat- and Cold-Related Mortality in the United Kingdom and Australia

    Sotiris Vardoulakis;Keith Dear;Shakoor Hajat;Clare Heaviside

  • Changes in population susceptibility to heat and cold over time: assessing adaptation to climate change.

    Katherine Arbuthnott;Katherine Arbuthnott;Shakoor Hajat;Clare Heaviside;Clare Heaviside;Sotiris Vardoulakis;Sotiris Vardoulakis

  • Long-term exposure to ambient ozone and mortality: a quantitative systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence from cohort studies

    R. W. Atkinson;B. K. Butland;Chrysanthi Dimitroulopoulou;M. R. Heal

  • Assessing urban population vulnerability and environmental risks across an urban area during heatwaves - Implications for health protection.

    H. L. Macintyre;Clare Heaviside;Clare Heaviside;Clare Heaviside;J. Taylor;R Picetti

  • Temperature-related mortality impacts under and beyond Paris Agreement climate change scenarios

    Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera;Yuming Guo;Yuming Guo;Francesco Sera;Veronika Huber;Veronika Huber

  • Potential benefits of cool roofs in reducing heat-related mortality during heatwaves in a European city.

    H.L. Macintyre;H.L. Macintyre;C. Heaviside

  • The winter urban heat island: Impacts on cold-related mortality in a highly urbanized European region for present and future climate

    Helen. L. Macintyre;Clare Heaviside;Xiaoming Cai;Revati Phalkey

  • The effects of horizontal advection on the urban heat island in Birmingham and the West Midlands, United Kingdom during a heatwave

    Clare Heaviside;Clare Heaviside;Xiaoming Cai;Sotiris Vardoulakis;Sotiris Vardoulakis

  • Health burdens of surface ozone in the UK for a range of future scenarios.

    Mathew R. Heal;Clare Heaviside;Ruth M. Doherty;Massimo Vieno

  • Climate change and water-related infectious diseases

    Gordon Nichols;Iain Lake;Clare Heaviside

  • Observations of urban heat island advection from a high‐density monitoring network

    Richard Bassett;Xiaoming Cai;Lee Chapman;Clare Heaviside;Clare Heaviside

  • Modelling public health improvements as a result of air pollution control policies in the UK over four decades—1970 to 2010

    E Carnell;M Vieno;S Vardoulakis;R Beck

  • Extreme weather and air pollution effects on cardiovascular and respiratory hospital admissions in Cyprus

    H. Tsangari;A. K. Paschalidou;A. P. Kassomenos;Sotiris Vardoulakis

  • Comparison of built environment adaptations to heat exposure and mortality during hot weather, West Midlands region, UK.

    Jonathon Taylor;Paul Wilkinson;Roberto Picetti;Phil Symonds

Frequent Co-Authors

Sotiris Vardoulakis
Sotiris Vardoulakis University of Canberra
Shakoor Hajat
Shakoor Hajat London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Paul Wilkinson
Paul Wilkinson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Shilu Tong
Shilu Tong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Kristie L. Ebi
Kristie L. Ebi University of Washington
Yuming Guo
Yuming Guo Monash University
Myles R. Allen
Myles R. Allen University of Oxford
Ruth M. Doherty
Ruth M. Doherty University of Edinburgh
Lee Chapman
Lee Chapman University of Birmingham
David Stevenson
David Stevenson University of Edinburgh

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