The AWARD-APR consortium organized a two-hour online symposium on 21 June 2021 to give an update to partners and stakeholders on the progress made thus far and to gather partners inputs.
AWARD-APR is a multinational consortium created to perform comparative analyses of diarrheal disease risk associated with extreme weather events in order to develop a transferable solution — S2S early warnings for diarrheal disease — to reduce extreme weather-related diarrheal disease burdens and improve community resilience to climate change.
The symposium welcomed 24 participants from 10 different countries in Asia-Pacific Region, USA and Europe. The symposium begun with an introduction by the project leader. The session was followed by several presentations. The following topics were discussed:
1) Evaluating meteorological data from weather stations and reanalysis for AWARD-APR
2) El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and extreme weather events (extreme heat and precipitation) in Asia Pacific Region
3) Preliminary assessment for risk of diarrhea in association with weather variations (extreme heat and precipitation)
4) Incorporating Neural Network Analysis for Diarrheal Disease Early Warning System
For more information about the AWARD-APR project symposium, please visit this website and contact Prof. Amir Sapkota: amirsap@umd.edu