Introducing Lauren Smith

   Lauren is a first year PhD student in the department of Geography at the University of Exeter. She has two 
   supervisors, Dr. Luiz Aragão and Dr. Clive Sabel.

Her PhD research aims to quantify the basin wide impacts of climate-induced hazards on human health

   (respiratory and vector borne diseases) in the Brazilian Amazon. At the moment she is analyzing 
   data between January 2000 and December 2010 to find associations between environmental variables 
   and health data.  

She is traveling to Brazil to meet people to discuss her research further as well as the feasibility

   of her fieldwork which will commence next year and adaptation framework also to find out whether the 
   researchers would be interested in working with her.