Protecting outdoor workers in urban Asia from climate-related health risks: Bridging policy gaps
Sherman Tai
Senior Researcher
Sherman Tai is a Senior Researcher at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). He is working on a project funded by the Wellcome Trust Climate Impacts Award entitled 'The health impacts of climate change on precarious outdoor workers in urban megacities in Vietnam' (2023-2026). He conducted a systematic review to identify research gaps and is analysing a survey (n ≈ 400) using linear and logistic regression to explore the social determinants of climate-related health risks among workers. He also contributed to the evaluation of Bankee, an educational intervention in Kuwait aimed at improving primary school pupils' financial literacy. He led on the quantitative pre-post outcomes evaluation to assess pupils' "distance-travelled" before and after the intervention by comparing baseline and endline surveys (n ≈ 1200); and is currently designing and validating a survey of teachers to be used in future evaluations.
Prior to joining NatCen, Sherman was an Associate at PwC Hong Kong. He holds an MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and a BSocSci in Government from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He spent a year at the University of Warwick as an exchange student in Politics and International Studies.
