
Organization
Our team is organized into four groups, known as “cores.”
- The Administrative Core focuses on financial management, coordination, communications and more.
- The Research Core implements health intervention research projects, starting with a study of engagement on climate and health data.
- The Implementation and Evaluation Core develops a fellowship program to recruit and train interdisciplinary teams that will implement and evaluate climate and health interventions.
- The Community Engagement Core develops community engagement activities for our fellows, our health interventions and our organization.
We are supported by several advisory boards.
- The Executive Advisory Board meets annually to review the center’s progress and provide feedback.
- The Community Advisory Board helps prioritize and guide future the activities of the Community Engagement Core.
- The Interdisciplinary Faculty Advisory Panel provides mentorship to our fellows.
We partner with the National Association of City and County Health Officials, which helps us recruit city and county health departments to participate in our interventions. Our work is funded by an exploratory research grant from the National Institutes of Health, known as a P20.
People
Jeremy Hess, MD, MPH (Contact PI)
Research Core
Expertise: Emergency medicine, climate change and health, health system preparedness
Amber S Khan, PhD
Implementation and Evaluation Core
Expertise: Climate and housing; disaster preparedness; displacement and gentrification
Anna Reed, MPH
Community Engagement Core
Expertise: Community resilience, environmental justice, policy
Clare McCarthy, MPH
Community Engagement Core, Implementation and Evaluation Core
Expertise: Climate change and health, extreme heat, community engagement
Kenneth Sherr, PhD
Implementation and Evaluation Core, Research Core
Expertise: Implementation science, data-driven health service planning, chronic disease
Kristie Ebi, PhD, MPH
Administrative Core
Expertise: Climate change and health, vulnerability and adaptation assessment, policy
Marci Burden, MA
Administrative Core
Expertise: Food policy, international development, program management
Nicole Errett, PhD
Implementation and Evaluation Core
Expertise: Community engaged research, disaster resilience, policy analysis, implementation science
Resham Patel, MPH
Community Engagement Core
Expertise: Community engaged research, disaster resilience
Tania Busch Isaksen, PhD
Community Engagement Core
Expertise: Environmental epidemiology, community-engaged research