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Kris A. Murray is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the intersecting fields of Medicine and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on the health impacts of climate change.

The scientist has contributed extensively to multiple subfields, including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, and Modeling and Simulation. These areas collectively reflect an engagement with both the biological and environmental determinants of health.

The main topics of work for Kris A. Murray encompass:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
  • Rabies epidemiology and control

The scientist's publication record includes papers primarily published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Lancet, The Lancet Planetary Health, Scientific Reports, and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Notable recent papers include:

  • 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)

Kris A. Murray frequently collaborates with a group of peers including Ilan Kelman, Takuya Iwamura, Gina E. C. Charnley, Marina Romanello, and Ana Bonell, indicating a robust network in related domains of study. The volume of joint publications ranges from 11 to 19 coauthored works with these individuals.

Best Publications

  • 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 Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson;Kristine Belesova

  • The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems

    James E. M. Watson;James E. M. Watson;Tom Evans;Oscar Venter;Brooke Williams;Brooke Williams

  • Global hotspots and correlates of emerging zoonotic diseases

    Toph Allen;Kris A. Murray;Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio;Stephen S. Morse

  • 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

  • Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines

    Simon J. O’Hanlon;Adrien Rieux;Rhys A. Farrer;Gonçalo M. Rosa;Gonçalo M. Rosa

  • The Lancet Countdown : tracking progress on health and climate change

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson;Yuqi Bai

  • A Strategy To Estimate Unknown Viral Diversity in Mammals

    Simon John Anthony;Simon John Anthony;Jonathan H. Epstein;Kris A. Murray;Isamara Navarrete-Macias

  • Global change, parasite transmission and disease control: lessons from ecology

    Joanne Cable;Iain Barber;Brian Boag;Amy R. Ellison

  • Accelerating invasion potential of disease vector Aedes aegypti under climate change.

    Takuya Iwamura;Adriana Guzman-Holst;Kris A. Murray;Kris A. Murray

  • A global assessment of current and future biodiversity vulnerability to habitat loss–climate change interactions

    Daniel B. Segan;Daniel B. Segan;Kris A. Murray;James E.M. Watson;James E.M. Watson

  • Network structure and parasite transmission in a group living lizard, the gidgee skink, Egernia stokesii

    Stephanie S. Godfrey;C. Michael Bull;Richard James;Kris Murray;Kris Murray

  • Human ecology in pathogenic landscapes: two hypotheses on how land use change drives viral emergence

    Kris A Murray;Peter Daszak

  • Context‐dependent conservation responses to emerging wildlife diseases

    Kate E. Langwig;Jamie Voyles;Mark Q. Wilber;Winifred F. Frick

  • Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding disease emergence: The past, present, and future drivers of Nipah virus emergence

    Peter Daszak;Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio;Tiffany L. Bogich;Tiffany L. Bogich;Tiffany L. Bogich;Miguel Fernandez

  • Assessing spatial patterns of disease risk to biodiversity: Implications for the management of the amphibian pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

    Kris A. Murray;Richard W. R. Retallick;Robert Puschendorf;Lee F. Skerratt

  • Engineering a future for amphibians under climate change

    Luke P. Shoo;Deanna H. Olson;Sarah K. McMenamin;Kris A. Murray

  • Impact and dynamics of disease in species threatened by the amphibian chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

    Kris A. Murray;Lee F. Skerratt;Rick Speare;Hamish McCALLUM

  • Indoor temperature and health: a global systematic review

    S. Tham;R. Thompson;O. Landeg;K.A. Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee F. Skerratt
Lee F. Skerratt University of Melbourne
Ilan Kelman
Ilan Kelman University College London
Peter Daszak
Peter Daszak Columbia University
Hamish McCallum
Hamish McCallum Griffith University
Lee Berger
Lee Berger University of Melbourne
Hilary Graham
Hilary Graham University of York
Mark A. Maslin
Mark A. Maslin University College London
Richard Speare
Richard Speare James Cook University
Peng Gong
Peng Gong University of Hong Kong
Paul Wilkinson
Paul Wilkinson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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