• Determines relationships between climate factors and diseases;
• Prepares communities to mitigate the effects of increases in infectious diseases;
• Extrapolates the relationship between climate and a disease in time (e.g. monthly temperature and incidence of diarrhea in a population by year) to estimate change in temperature-related diseases under future climate change;
• Creates a predictive model intended to assess the change in the number of cases of infectious diseases under future climate change conditions.