UCAM Workshop – Modelling Climate, Behaviour, and Health in Changing Urban Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
Date: 4 June 2026 | Location: Online
Climate change is reshaping the cities we live in. Intensifying heatwaves and flooding, together with mounting pressures on transport, housing, and energy systems, are producing consequences that ripple through everyday behaviour, environmental exposures, all affecting population health and health inequalities. Yet modelling of extreme climate events, transport and infrastructure resilience, and health outcomes remains largely absent from assessments of urban resilience and mitigation led by climate science and engineering.
On 4 June 2026, from 3:00–6:00 PM CEST, this interactive workshop will bring together experts in climate science, transport, environmental exposures, and health modelling to explore how a changing climate threatens infrastructure and communities, how these impacts shape behaviours, exposures, and health outcomes, and how existing modelling approaches must evolve to address emerging challenges. Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working at the intersection of climate, cities, and health are warmly invited to bring their own perspectives, share ongoing work, and help surface the open questions and challenges of incorporating climate impacts into quantitative health assessments of urban scenarios.
Featured speakers:
- Prof Hayley Fowler (Newcastle University / UK Climate Change Committee)
- Dr Ali Ford (Newcastle University)
- Prof Cathryn Tonne (ISGlobal)
- Dr Zahra Shahhoseini, Hazard Evacuation Specialist (NSW Reconstruction Authority)
- Prof James Woodcock (Loughborough University )
- Dr Ismail Saadi (University of Cambridge)
- Dr Tabea Sonnenschein (University of Cambridge)
Here is the registration link.
