Research

Heat research at the University of Arizona

Specific areas of focus for the initiative include:  

Health and medicine – understanding and addressing heat from multiple health science perspectives including public health, medicine, pharmaceuticals, physiology, etc.  

Planning and policy – addressing gaps in heat governance, urban planning, public health policy, etc.

Built and natural environment – mitigating urban heat through new material solutions and nature-based solutions, etc.

Technology – partnering to address extreme heat through the latest innovations, including wearables that monitor physiological heat stress, sensors to better understand microclimates, and use of AI, etc.