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Overview

Jan C. Semenza is affiliated with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science.

The scientist's work focuses on several subfields, including:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Infectious Diseases
  • General Health Professions
  • Modeling and Simulation

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts

Jan C. Semenza has published extensively, with frequent appearance in these venues:

  • The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • The Lancet
  • The Lancet Planetary Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet Public Health

Among their recent papers are:

  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises, 2020, The Lancet
  • The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels, 2022, The Lancet
  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future, 2021, The Lancet
  • The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms, 2023, The Lancet
  • The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action, 2024, The Lancet

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jan C. Semenza include:

  • Joacim Rocklöv
  • Rachel Lowe
  • Shouro Dasgupta
  • Niheer Dasandi
  • Kim Robin van Daalen

Best Publications

  • The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels

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  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises.

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • 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

  • The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms

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  • The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • Climate change and infectious diseases in Europe

    Jan C Semenza;Bettina Menne

  • Vector-borne diseases and climate change: a European perspective.

    Jan C Semenza;Jonathan E Suk

  • Community-based adaptation to the health impacts of climate change.

    Kristie L. Ebi;Jan C. Semenza

  • The impact of economic crises on communicable disease transmission and control: a systematic review of the evidence.

    Marc Suhrcke;David Stuckler;Jonathan E. Suk;Monica Desai

  • Monitoring EU Emerging Infectious Disease Risk Due to Climate Change

    Elisabet Lindgren;Yvonne Andersson;Jonathan E. Suk;Bertrand Sudre

  • The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: towards a climate resilient future

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  • Climate change and climate variability: personal motivation for adaptation and mitigation

    Jan C Semenza;George B Ploubidis;Linda A George

  • Detecting and Attributing Health Burdens to Climate Change

    Kristie L. Ebi;Nicholas H. Ogden;Jan C. Semenza;Alistair Woodward

  • Climate Change Impact Assessment of Food- and Waterborne Diseases

    Jan C. Semenza;Susanne Herbst;Andrea Rechenburg;Jonathan E. Suk

  • Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2012: an indicator-based report

    Hans-Martin Füssel;André Jol;Blaz Kurnik;Deborah Hemming

  • Environmental Drivers of West Nile Fever Epidemiology in Europe and Western Asia—A Review

    Shlomit Paz;Jan C. Semenza

  • Climate change effects on Chikungunya transmission in Europe: geospatial analysis of vector’s climatic suitability and virus’ temperature requirements

    Dominik Fischer;Dominik Fischer;Stephanie M Thomas;Jonathan E Suk;Bertrand Sudre

  • Mapping Climate Change Vulnerabilities to Infectious Diseases in Europe

    Jan C. Semenza;Jonathan E. Suk;Virginia Estevez;Kristie L. Ebi

  • El Niño and climate change—contributing factors in the dispersal of Zika virus in the Americas?

    Shlomit Paz;Jan C Semenza

  • International Dispersal of Dengue through Air Travel: Importation Risk for Europe

    Jan C. Semenza;Bertrand Sudre;Jennifer Miniota;Massimiliano Rossi

  • Cryptosporidiosis surveillance and water-borne outbreaks in Europe.

    J C Semenza;G Nichols

  • Health Effects Associated With Recreational Coastal Water Use: Urban Versus Rural California

    Ryan H. Dwight;Dean B. Baker;Jan C. Semenza;Betty H. Olson

  • Permissive summer temperatures of the 2010 European West Nile fever upsurge.

    Shlomit Paz;Dan Malkinson;Manfred S. Green;Gil Tsioni

Frequent Co-Authors

David Stuckler
David Stuckler Bocconi University
Joacim Rocklöv
Joacim Rocklöv Umeå University
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Joaquin Trinanes
Joaquin Trinanes National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Aaron Reeves
Aaron Reeves University of Oxford
Kees de Hoogh
Kees de Hoogh Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Marc Suhrcke
Marc Suhrcke University of York
Sanjay Basu
Sanjay Basu Stanford University
Nigel W. Arnell
Nigel W. Arnell University of Reading
Véronique Chevalier
Véronique Chevalier Institut Pasteur

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