How Climate Change is Helping the Spread of Infectious Diseases
Warmer, shorter winters; changes in precipitation patterns; extreme weather events and habitat encroachment have created ideal conditions for the spread of new pathogens.
About Regina Larocque, MD, MPH
Clinical Interests:
- Environmental health
- Infectious diseases
- Travel medicine
Treats:
- Adult
Languages:
- Spanish
Locations
Mass General Infectious Diseases
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-3906
Medical Education
- MD, Duke University School of Medicine
- Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Fellowship, Brigham and Women's Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Infectious Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
As a faculty member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, my research focuses on travel medicine and enteric infections. I am also interested in the relationship between climate change and human health.