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Amir Sapkota

Professor and Chair, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

School of Public Health

Expertise

Climate Change

Environmental Health

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Health Equity and Literacy

Language Proficiency

english

Sapkota's research group focuses on the intersection of climate change and human health with a particular emphasis on cardiopulmonary, renal and diarrheal diseases. His group's ongoing collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health has demonstrated the ongoing health impacts of climate change in our communities. On a global scale, the group is developing an early warning system for diarrheal disease in the Asia-Pacific Region.

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