Julia Feriato Corvetto

Julia is a general medical doctor who graduated in 2020 in Brazil. She has been a doctoral student at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH) since May 2022, where she studies the intersection between climate change and mental health (MH). Julia focuses on patients from low- and middle-income countries, such as those from Brazil, as they receive less scientific attention and are, at the same time, at the highest heat vulnerability. Besides, she is highly interested in how socioeconomic background influences this heat susceptibility and the possible barriers that MH patients might face when seeking an emergency center – e.g., stigma, lower MH literacy, and lack of means of transportation.