Elke Hertig

Elke Hertig works at the intersection of health science and the environment and holds the chair for Regional Climate Change and Health at the University of Augsburg. A geographer and climatologist by training, she has expanded her research to include the health impacts of climatic factors (e.g. heat, ozone pollution) under current and future climate change. In a further research focus, she is concerned with the topic of climate and environmental factors of vector-borne diseases, i.e., the propagation of diseases spread by pathogen-carrying mosquitos.