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Antonio Gasparrini

@gasparrini.bsky.social

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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at LSHTM

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · 21d

New article by #EHMLab at #LSHTM on confounding in #airpollution #epidemiology, with a case study using the #UKBiobank.
Key result: importance to control for residual spatial confounding and lifestyle factors.
Focus on #reproducibility, with #R code & synthetic data.

Links: lnkd.in/dxY9SuGt

Reposted by Antonio Gasparrini, Du Toit

Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 23d

📈Climate change-driven summer heat led to an additional 16,500 deaths in 854 European cities, a new study led by the Grantham Institute and the @lshtm.bsky.social estimates 🧵

Watch Dr @clairbarnes.bsky.social from @ic-cep.bsky.social & @gkonstantinoudis.bsky.social explain the findings.

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Aug 29

#EHMLab is hiring a Research Fellow in Biostatistics. Work with massive UK cohorts like UKBiobank & OpenSAFELY to develop new methods for environmental health & climate change. Unique opportunity to collaborate with leading networks.
#Biostatistics #Epidemiology #DataScience
Apply: lnkd.in/dynhxsqM

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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · Jun 23

UK heatwave ‘likely to kill almost 600 people in England & Wales'

In @theguardian.com @gasparrini.bsky.social‬ & Malcolm Mistry discuss rapid analysis of UK #heatwave & how even a rise of a few degrees, due to #ClimateChange, can be dangerous.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Current heatwave ‘likely to kill almost 600 people in England and Wales’

Surge in deaths would not be occurring without human-caused global heating, scientists say as analysis published

www.theguardian.com

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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · Jun 21

📢 Nearly 600 heat-related deaths expected in UK #heatwave

LSHTM & @granthamicl.bsky.social real-time rapid analysis estimates impact of rising UK temperatures as researchers warn risks set to increase @gasparrini.bsky.social

#PublicHeath

👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Jun 21

Rapid impact analysis of current #heatwave in UK using state-of-the art modelling, #EHMLab and Grantham Institute collaboration. A total of 570 extra deaths forecasted for 19-22 June, with hotspots in London and West Midlands. Full report: ow.ly/y7TF50We32C

Reposted by Antonio Gasparrini

Data & Statistical Science for Health, LSHTM @lshtm-dash.bsky.social · Jun 16

🏛️ Last chance to sign up for our symposium in London

We will explore target trial emulation and other frameworks: the role and potential of observational data for evaluating effects of interventions

Registration deadline: 17 June

Open to all 🔽
bit.ly/TTE_25

Reposted by Antonio Gasparrini, Meri Koivusalo

Finn McQuaid @cfmcquaid.bsky.social · May 30

TB & climate change: @who.int report out now, building on an analytical framework we developed to explore the intersections and implications for the TB epidemic. Key message? TB should be considered a climate-sensitive disease www.who.int/publications...

Tuberculosis and climate change: analytical framework and knowledge gaps

This report explores the intersection of tuberculosis (TB) and climate change, highlighting how climate-related challenges such as food and water insecurity, displacement, and disrupted healthcare acc...

www.who.int

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Reposted by Antonio Gasparrini

Data & Statistical Science for Health, LSHTM @lshtm-dash.bsky.social · May 27

🚨 Next month, we’ll be hosting a one-day event on target-trial emulation and other frameworks, exploring the role and potential of observational data for evaluating the effects of interventions

Open to everyone working in #datascience #biostatistics #clinicaltrials

Get your ticket 🔽
bit.ly/TTE_25

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · May 19

Today we are meeting together with #MCCstudy colleagues and other researchers for the workshop "Advanced Statistical Methods for evaluating the health effects of environmental exposures and climate change"

Full program here: lnkd.in/d6d-xRTQ

#EnvironmentalEpi #ClimateHealth #DataScience

Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · May 1

New #MCC finds boosting urban greenness by 30% could lower temperatures by 0.19°C and cut heat-related mortality by ~1% globally. South Europe sees the biggest benefits. A climate adaptation win?

Full text: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#PublicHealth #ClimateChange

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Ruth Keogh @ruthkeogh.bsky.social · Apr 24

📆 SAVE THE DATE: 26 June 📆 for our 1-day event on “Target trial emulation and other frameworks: The role and potential of observational data for evaluating effects of interventions”, hosted by the Centre for Data & Statistical Science for Health (DASH) at LSHTM. @lshtm-dash.bsky.social

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Reposted by Antonio Gasparrini

Pierre Masselot @pmasselot.bsky.social · Apr 23

With the EHM-Lab, we have put together a website to explore our scientific outputs: ehm-lab.github.io. This includes R packages, reproducible analysis code, datasets and interactive apps. @gasparrini.bsky.social

EHM-Lab

ehm-lab.github.io

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Apr 17

New tutorial!

Updated #EHMLab work by Jacopo Vanoli w/ R code to link residential data to environmental exposures in cohort studies. Simple, scalable, and open-source.

📄 Article: nature.com/articles/s41370-023-00635-w
💻 Code: github.com/gasparrini/EnvExpLink

#EpiTwitter #RStats #EnvHealth

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Reposted by Antonio Gasparrini

Data & Statistical Science for Health, LSHTM @lshtm-dash.bsky.social · Apr 16

Our expert comment from @gasparrini.bsky.social explains how the new Health Data Research Service – recently announced by the UK government – could help researchers access health data

Read more 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

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Data & Statistical Science for Health, LSHTM @lshtm-dash.bsky.social · Apr 15

A recent #EHMLab modelling study with @pmasselot.bsky.social @gasparrini.bsky.social found that climate change could lead to ~2.3 million additional temperature-related deaths in Europe by 2099, substantially outweighing the loss in cold deaths

Read more 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

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Data & Statistical Science for Health, LSHTM @lshtm-dash.bsky.social · Apr 7

👋 Hi Bluesky. We’re the Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health (DASH) at @lshtm.bsky.social

We are the hub for data and statistical science in LSHTM, applying our expertise and data science resources to the biggest problems in global health

Find out more about us 👇

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Mar 20

New commentary in LancetPlanHealth on how climate change is shifting the balance heat vs cold health impact, leading to a huge net increase in temperature-related mortality in the near future.
Full-text: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#ClimateChange #PublicHealth #HeatRisk #ColdRisk

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Feb 7

Masterclass example of #ReproducibleResearch from #EHMLab @ LSHTM: long-term mortality risks of #AirPollution in #UKBiobank. Full release of R scripts and synthetic data of 502,360 participants.
Article + Zenodo + GitHub links: www.ag-myresearch.com/2025_vanoli_...

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Feb 5

Yet again, the #EHMLab @ LSHTM leads on methodological developments in #Epidemiology, with a new modelling framework for multi-location environmental studies. As usual, everything fully reproducible.
Full-text: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#RStats code & data: github.com/PierreMassel...

journals.sagepub.com

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Feb 4

Join our webinar on the work of the #MCC Collaborative Research Network, organised by the #Climes Centre at Karolinska Institutet on Thursday 15:00 CET. We will discuss last findings on planetary health research on environmental stressors and climate change.
Register: www.climes.se/events/20250...

Seminars – climes Email

www.climes.se

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Jan 28

New analysis by EHM-Lab @ LSHTM on climate change health projections in Europe. Key msg: 1) Rise in heat deaths will largely exceed reduction for cold; 2) adaptation alone will not be enough to reverse the trend. Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Estimating future heat-related and cold-related mortality under climate change, demographic and adaptation scenarios in 854 European cities - Nature Medicine

Modeled analyses of 854 European cities show that net temperature-related mortality will increase because of an increase in heat-related mortality exceeding future reductions in cold-related mortality...

www.nature.com

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Jan 23

First day of our course on 'Advanced Methods in Climate Change Epidemiology' in Wengen with Ana Vicedo-Cabrera. Lectures, real-data demos, R code, and cutting-edge methodologies to assess climate-related health risks. We have a full class!
#ClimateChange #PublicHealth #Epidemiology

Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Jan 17

Seminar series on ‘Causal Inference in Environmental Epidemiology’ hosted by the DASH Centre, with experts from Harvard, North Carolina State, and LSHTM.
First seminar on 22 January (15:00 - 16:00).
Info and links:
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

#CausalInference #LSHTM #AirPollution #DataScience

Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health

The Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health brings together data science expertise from across LSHTM to generate new opportunities for research, training and knowledge exchange into policy ...

www.lshtm.ac.uk

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Reposted by Antonio Gasparrini, Michael Westphal

Fulden Batibeniz @fuldenbatibeniz.bsky.social · Jan 10

🌡️🔥Climate change isn't a distant threat—it's a public health crisis now. Our study shows heat-related deaths in many cities could surpass annual COVID-19 deaths in just 5–10 years at 3°C warming. Urgent action is needed!

👉 rdcu.be/d5rnL

@natureportfolio.bsky.social #scientificreports

Rapid climate action is needed: comparing heat vs. COVID-19-related mortality

Scientific Reports - Rapid climate action is needed: comparing heat vs. COVID-19-related mortality

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Dec 12

Our #MCC Article Collection is finalised and fully published in Environmental Epidemiology.
Read the main article introducing the MCC Network: journals.lww.com/environepide...
Here the full collection: journals.lww.com/environepide...

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Dec 6

Abstract submission for the #EGU General Assembly 2025 now open. Join us in session ITS2.3/CL0.12: Population Health Impacts of Climate Extremes and Climatic Factors.

Submit here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

#ClimateHealth #EGU25 #ScienceForSociety

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Dec 4

Today I will present a webinar within the BUSPH-HSPH #CAFÉUniversity RCC on the case time series design, a cutting-edge #ResearchMethods for #ClimateHealth. Dec 4th at 09:00-10:30 ET (14:00-15:30 GMT).
Register here: climatehealthcafe.org/training

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Nov 29

Great article led by the Monash team within the #MCC Network published in @thelancet.bsky.social: 1.53 million deaths annually linked to #AirPollution from landscape fires (PM2.5 & O3) in 2000-2019. Most deaths occur in low&middle-income regions.
Full text: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Global, regional, and national mortality burden attributable to air pollution from landscape fires: a health impact assessment study

LFS air pollution induced a substantial global mortality burden, with notable geographical and socioeconomic disparities. Urgent actions are required to address such substantial health impact and the ...

www.thelancet.com

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Nov 26

Great collaboration with King's College on climate change and mental health. Urgent need for interdisciplinary collaboration to improve understanding, address evidence gaps, and inform practical interventions
Full text: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39582375/
#ClimateChange #MentalHealth