Climate-Resilient Cancer Care in Cold-Climate Communities: A Dartmouth Living Lab for Winter Hazard Alerts & Telehealth Conversion
Katie Litcher, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology and Applied Sciences at Geisel; Timothy Burdick, Associate Chief Research Officer for Informatics at DHMC, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research in Community and Family Medicine; Troi Perkins, Research Project Manager, Northern New England Cooperative of Practice and Community-Based Research Network; Jonathan Chipman, Director, Citrin Family GIS/Applied Spatial Analysis Laboratory, Dartmouth; Heather Carlos, Catchment Area Data Specialist, Community Outreach and Engagement Team at Dartmouth Cancer Center
Extreme weather events—including snow and ice storms, flooding, heat, wildfire smoke, and power outages—are increasingly disrupting cancer care in northern New England. This project pilots a climate-hazard alert and telehealth conversion system using real-time data, geospatial mapping, and patient co-design to identify vulnerable patients, reduce missed visits, and create a scalable model for climate-resilient cancer care.
Photo courtesy I. Saltidis