date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:07:42 +0000 from: Tony McMichael subject: 3 items to: m.hulme@uea.ac.uk Mike, Three things: 1. We are drafting an outline application, with Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (PHLS) co-investigators, to the Wellcome Trust for a study of the recent historical relationships of climatic trends/variations to the occurrence of various climate-sensitive infectious diseases, both in Britain and Europe-wide. We have had some limited experience in using climatic data for this type of study, but we would appreciate having some more expert input on that front to this larger study. Would you (or a nominated colleague) be interested, and able, to be a named "recognised collaborator" on this application? (At this stage, it's just a two-page outline, to see if it fits their funding criteria. We must submit it within about 10 days.) 2. We have been advised by the EC that we will not hear about our Advanced Study Course (Sept 1999) until sometime this September. 3. My colleague Sari Kovats (who works with me on IPCC matters, as well as research - and, indeed, is about to enrol for a PhD here) is interested in attending some sessions at the impending Second International Climate and history Conference, at UEA. Do you have any cut-price deals? Tony McMichael --- From: A.J. McMichael Professor of Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology and Population Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Keppel Street London WC1E 7HT U.K. Ph: +44 171 927.2254 Fax: +44 171 580.6897 email: t.mcmichael@LSHTM.ac.uk Web: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/eps/eu/euintro.htm