Coral Salvador

C. Salvador is a Senior Research Assistant at the University of Bern, working within the interdisciplinary Climate Epidemiology and Public Health research group (CEPH) at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) and associated with the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research (University of Bern). Her research develops along the intersection between environmental epidemiology, public health, climate sciences, and sociology of health, with a focus on the health impacts of extreme weather events in the context of climate change and the identification of vulnerability profiles. She is currently leading an interdisciplinary and innovative project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione grant (IGIA-SETH) on the impacts of droughts on human health and the identification of vulnerability patterns at the global scale.

She completed her PhD at the University of Vigo (2018-2020), developed in collaboration with the National School of Health, Institute of Health Carlos III, in Madrid. Her international PhD research on drought and health in the Iberian Peninsula was pioneering in Europe and awarded cum laude and an extraordinary doctoral prize, resulting in five first-author Q1 publications and
international recognition, including the Tromp Foundation Award. After completing her PhD, she held a competitive postdoctoral fellowship from the Xunta of Galicia, Spain, and joined the CEPH (2022-2023), focusing on vulnerability profiles to the effects of extreme weather events under a changing climate. She has led multiple epidemiological studies focused on drought-related health impacts and was invited to contribute to the Annual Review of Public Health with a comprehensive review on the topic. He has been recently awarded with the EMS TF Award 2026 (outstanding achievement in biometeorology). Her research also spans other extreme weather events and health outcomes, integrating gender, socioeconomic, and demographic vulnerability dimensions, along with methodological contributions.

C. Salvador has established strong collaborations across Europe, North America, Brazil, and South Africa, and maintains active participation with international research groups and networks, including the Ibero- American Women for Climate and Health Research, IBWoClimA, the Multi- Country Multi-City (MCC) collaborative research network, and FutureMed.
Her work has been presented at numerous major national and international conferences, and she regularly contributes to outreach activities. C. Salvador has participated in several research projects and is coordinating WG1 of the international COST Action FutureMed: A transdisciplinary network to bridge climate science and impacts on health.

She has also served as editor and contributes actively to the supervision of early-career researchers.