Disparities in people’s knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding climate change and dengue fever in Lao PDR and Thailand

Date:

Monday, 16 December 2019

Time:

3.30pm – 4.30pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 2, Level 8
Tahir Foundation Building (MD1)
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
National University of Singapore
12 Science Drive 2, S(117549)

Synopsis:

Climate change is one of the most important drivers of dengue transmission. We conducted one study among 720 households living in eight distinct locations in Laos and Thailand. Compared to people in urban areas, rural people were found to have lower knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) levels regarding climate change and dengue. Despite the effects of global warming, local climate change and rapid expansion of the dengue incidence in Laos and Thailand, the Knowledge and practice of people about climate change and dengue were low. The findings call for urgently needed integrated awareness programs to increase KAP levels regarding climate change adaptation and mitigation of climate-induced dengue risk to improve the health and welfare of people.

About the speaker:

As a spatial epidemiologist, using geospatial and informatics tools, Dr Haque studies infectious disease epidemiology as it relates to time, space and climate change. Dr Haque also has a keen interest to contribute to the ongoing and unforeseen challenges in global health in the near future. He received a PhD in Public Health from Nagasaki University, Japan, Master of Science in Geoinformatics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and a Bachelor of Science from Khulna University, Bangladesh. He was also a guest PhD student in Norway for one year and completed a two years post-doctoral research fellowship from the Johns Hopkins University, USA.