Faculty

Research Interests

Sustainable Communities, Climate Change, Disaster resilience, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Heat, Wildfires

DEOHS Biography

Education

MD Medicine, Emory University, 2003

MPH Public Health, Emory University, 2002

In the News

Wildfires in US West undo air quality progress of past 20 years
Axios, 12/05/2023

NYC subways unbearably hot again as outside temps fall
New York Post, 11/16/2023

Climate change fight is woefully underfunded, UW prof. says
MyNorthwest , 10/03/2023

Dangerous heat waves expose India’s inequality, deadly risk for poor
Washington Post, 09/22/2023

Lessons learned from the Pacific Northwest’s 2021 heat dome
KNKX, 07/03/2023

New tool from UW provides strategies to prevent heat deaths
KNKX, 06/28/2023

A grid collapse would make a heat wave far deadlier
WIRED, 06/27/2023

Allergy season is getting longer
Fox 13, 03/21/2023

WA hired a climate epidemiologist — and not a moment too soon
Crosscut, 06/03/2022

Extreme Heat Can Be Deadly. Here’s How To Stay Safe.
Buzz Feed News, 05/05/2022