Marissa Childs

Warmer weather across the globe is reshaping the landscape of human health. Case in point: Dengue fever incidence could rise as much as 76% by 2050 due to climate warming across a large swath of Asia and the Americas, according to a new study led by Marissa Childs, a researcher at the University of Washington. 

Marissa Childs's research explores how large-scale environmental changes — like climate change and land use change — affect human health. Her work uses remote sensing and modeling to quantify nonlinear and context-dependent effects of environmental change.