Our Faculty

Jeffrey Shaman, PHD, focuses on climate, atmospheric science and hydrology, as well as biology, and studies the environmental determinants of infectious disease transmission. In particular, Dr. Shaman investigates how hydrologic variability affects mosquito ecology and mosquito-borne disease transmission, and how atmospheric conditions impact the survival, transmission and seasonality of pathogens. More broadly he is interested in the effects of meteorology on human health and is currently working toward developing systems to forecast infectious disease outbreaks at a range of time scales. In addition, Dr. Shaman is studying a number of climate phenomena, including Rossby wave dynamics, atmospheric jet waveguides, the coupled South Asian monsoon-ENSO system, extratropical precipitation, and tropical cyclogenesis.

PhD, Columbia University, 2003

MA, Columbia University, 2000

BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1990

Mailman School Affiliations:

• Columbia Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan 

University Affiliations:

• International Research Institute for Climate and Society
• Earth Institute
• Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy