BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID://ISEE//511677 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260421T042150 VTIMEZONE:America/New_York DTSTART:20260430T150000Z DTEND:20260430T160000Z UID:511677 SUMMARY:Compounding Injustice: How Cascading Climate Hazards Amplify Health Disparities LOCATION: DESCRIPTION:Compounding Injustice: How Cascading Climate Hazards Amplify Health Disparities \n\n04/30/26 11:00 AM EST\n - 04/30/26 12:00 PM EST\Description:\n\n \nCompounding Injustice: How Cascading Climate Hazards Amplify Health Disparities \n\nClimate change does not affect populations equally. Low-income and historically marginalized communities face a triple jeopardy: higher cumulative environmental exposures, worse health outcomes for the same level of exposure due to increased susceptibility and reduced adaptive capacity to respond effectively. Yet climate-health research has predominantly focused on single hazards (e.g. heat, wildfire smoke, flooding), analyzed in isolation, masking how real-world compound and cascading climate exposures may systematically amplify health inequalities. This presentation will describe how co-occurring, sequential, and preconditioned climate exposures interact with demographic, socioeconomic, and territorial vulnerabilities to drive health disparities. We will also discuss how to consider compounded climate events for adaptation strategies. Understanding these layered, intersectional vulnerabilities while considering a compounded framework is essential for designing equitable adaptation strategies that protect those most at risk and dismantle the structural drivers of climate-related health injustice.\Details:\nProfessor Tarik Benmarhnia is Associate Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Department and 2025 Tony McMichael Mid-Career ISEE Award Winner. Dr. Benmarhnia finished his PhD jointly from The University of Montreal and Paris Sud and finished two Master’s degrees, one in Environmental Health Sciences Engineering from the French School of Higher Education in Public Health and another in Pharmacy and Ecotoxicology from Montpellier University in France. He completed his BA in Environmental Sciences from Montpellier University. He has developed a rich and diverse educational profile that gave him the ability to explore cross-disciplinary fields of public health and other disciplines. To further his training, he was an environmental scientist on contaminated soil with the French Railway Company, followed by a Health Scientist position with the French National Institute of Health Education and Prevention, and most recently was a post-doc at McGill University with the Institute for Health and Social Policy. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Compounding Injustice: How Cascading Climate Hazards Amplify Health Disparities

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Compounding Injustice: How Cascading Climate Hazards Amplify Health Disparities

Climate change does not affect populations equally. Low-income and historically marginalized communities face a triple jeopardy: higher cumulative environmental exposures, worse health outcomes for the same level of exposure due to increased susceptibility and reduced adaptive capacity to respond effectively. Yet climate-health research has predominantly focused on single hazards (e.g. heat, wildfire smoke, flooding), analyzed in isolation, masking how real-world compound and cascading climate exposures may systematically amplify health inequalities. This presentation will describe how co-occurring, sequential, and preconditioned climate exposures interact with demographic, socioeconomic, and territorial vulnerabilities to drive health disparities. We will also discuss how to consider compounded climate events for adaptation strategies. Understanding these layered, intersectional vulnerabilities while considering a compounded framework is essential for designing equitable adaptation strategies that protect those most at risk and dismantle the structural drivers of climate-related health injustice.
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Professor Tarik Benmarhnia is Associate Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Department and 2025 Tony McMichael Mid-Career ISEE Award Winner. Dr. Benmarhnia finished his PhD jointly from The University of Montreal and Paris Sud and finished two Master’s degrees, one in Environmental Health Sciences Engineering from the French School of Higher Education in Public Health and another in Pharmacy and Ecotoxicology from Montpellier University in France. He completed his BA in Environmental Sciences from Montpellier University. He has developed a rich and diverse educational profile that gave him the ability to explore cross-disciplinary fields of public health and other disciplines. To further his training, he was an environmental scientist on contaminated soil with the French Railway Company, followed by a Health Scientist position with the French National Institute of Health Education and Prevention, and most recently was a post-doc at McGill University with the Institute for Health and Social Policy. PRIORITY:3 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT5M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Reminder END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR