ECO-Health Applied Workshops for Climate Change and Health Research
For early-career researchers eager to advance their skills in climate-health research, ECO-Health is excited to offer a series of applied workshops designed to equip you with cutting-edge methodologies and practical skills. Hands-on workshops will cover a wide range of essential topics applied to climate and health, including environmental epidemiology, machine learning, implementation science, and community-engaged research methods, and more. Sessions will empower scientists at all career stages, from junior researchers to senior faculty, to effectively address the complex challenges of climate change and health by building individual research capabilities and contributing to a collective research workforce adaptive to the rapidly evolving research needs of a changing world.
Spring 2026 - Causal Mediation Analysis in Climate Change Epidemiology
This workshop will provide a theoretical overview of mediation analysis methods and related identification assumptions, discuss potential challenges that arise when assessing mediation in climate change epidemiology using traditional methods (e.g. product method), and introduce alternative modern analytical methods (e.g., inverse probability weighting, inverse odds ratio weighting, stochastic mediation) that can deal with such challenges. We will also discuss settings with multiple mediators and exposure-mediator interactions. We will cover multiple analytical methods using R programming language with examples from climate change epidemiology to facilitate translation to real-world data analysis.
Part 1. This session will cover the theoretical foundation for causal mediation in climate change epidemiology.Date: 4/30/2026. 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Part II. This session will walk through an applied example, followed by Q&A.
Date 5/7/2026 10:00 am - 12:00pm.
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Instructor: Tarik Benmarhnia, PhD, is a professor and climate epidemiologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD.
Winter 2026 – Qualitative Data Collection in the Climate and Health Space
Date: 2/5/2026, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
This workshop will center on qualitative data collection using semi-structured in-depth interviews with key informants for climate and health research. Topics will include the types of research questions that lend themselves to qualitative exploration, structuring interview guides, use of prompts and developing rapport, theoretical saturation, and sampling considerations.
Prerequisites: None.
Instructors: Emily Arnold, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Medicine at UCSF. Lissa Moran, MPH, is a research analyst with the UCSF Department of Medicine, Division of Prevention Science.
Fall 2025 – Methods in Environmental Epidemiology, Parts I & II
Part I: An introduction to environmental epidemiology for those beginning their work in climate and health research and those shifting their research agenda to focus on these areas. Topics include causal inference for time series data, basic and advanced concepts of time series modeling and case-crossover designs, and interrupted time series analyses for climate epidemiology.
Date: 10/28/2025, 9:00am-11:00am
Instructor: Tarik Benmarhnia, PhD, is a professor and climate epidemiologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD.
Part II: Advanced techniques in climate epidemiology for those seeking to further their skills. Topics include mediation analyses, high-dimensional effect-modification (including with machine learning approaches) and multi-stage quasi-experimental methods for climate epidemiology research.
Date: 11/4/2025, 9:00am-11:00am
Prerequisites: Basic/intermediate knowledge in epidemiological designs and regression modelling is helpful. R codes will be shared using the GitHub platform. Participants may attend either or both sessions.
Instructor: Tarik Benmarhnia, PhD, is a professor and climate epidemiologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD.