Climate change and infectious disease

• Stamper, Aleksandra R., Ayesha S. Mahmud, Jennifer R. Nuzzo, and Rachel E. Baker. "Modeling the impact of climate extremes on seasonal influenza outbreaks across tropical and temperate locations." GeoHealth 9, no. 4 (2025): e2024GH001138.

• Baker, Rachel E. et al. "Increasing intensity of enterovirus outbreaks projected with climate change", Nature Communications (2024)

  Mahmud, Ayesha S., Pamela P. Martinez, and Rachel E. Baker. "The impact of current and future climates on spatiotemporal dynamics of influenza in a tropical setting." PNAS Nexus 2.9 (2023): pgad307.

• Baker, Rachel E., et al. "Infectious disease in an era of global change." Nature Reviews Microbiology (2021): 1-13.

• Baker, Rachel E., et al. "Assessing the influence of climate on future wintertime SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks." Nature Communications (2021).

Selected coverage: Buzzfeed News, Nature News

• Mahmud, Ayesha S., Pamela P. Martinez, Jingxing He, and Rachel E. Baker. "The Impact of Climate Change on Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Insights From Current Research and New Directions." Current Environmental Health Reports (2020): 1-8.

• Baker, Rachel E., et al. "Susceptible supply limits the role of climate in the early SARS-CoV-2 pandemic." Science (2020)

Selected coverage: NIH Director's Blog, Slate , NBC, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider

• Baker, Rachel E. "Climate change drives increase in modeled HIV prevalence." Climatic Change (2020): 1-16.

• Hooshyar, Milad, Caroline E. Wagner, Rachel E. Baker, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Bryan T. Grenfell, and Amilcare Porporato. "Cyclic epidemics and extreme outbreaks induced by hydro-climatic variability and memory." Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17, no. 171 (2020): 20200521.

• Wagner, Caroline E., Milad Hooshyar, Rachel E. Baker, Wenchang Yang, Nimalan Arinaminpathy, Gabriel Vecchi, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Amilcare Porporato, and Bryan T. Grenfell. "Climatological, virological and sociological drivers of current and projected dengue fever outbreak dynamics in Sri Lanka." Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17, no. 167 (2020): 20200075.

• Rose, Noah H. et al "Climate and urbanization drive mosquito preference for humans." Current Biology (2020) 

• Baker, Rachel E. et al. "Epidemic dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus in current and future climates." Nature Communications (2019)
  Blog post here.

• Baker, Rachel E., Ayesha S. Mahmud, and C. Jessica E. Metcalf. "Dynamic response of airborne infections to climate change: predictions for varicella." Climatic change 148.4 (2018): 547-560.