Climate Research Initiative

People

People

Meet the faculty and staff working on climate change at Emory. 

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Thomas Gillespie
Professor and Chair, Global Health Institute Faculty Distinction Fund Awardee; Department of Environmental Sciences
Interactions among anthropogenic environmental change; biodiversity; and the ecology and emergence of pathogens of people, wildlife, and domestic animals
Uriel Kitron
Goodrich C. White Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences; Jointly Appointed, Environmental Health & Epidemiology
Climate and infectious disease dynamics, emerging disease, urban areas
Vicki Hertzberg
Professor; jointly appointed in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health
Data science, machine learning, and heat exposure and biomarkers of kidney function
Vincent Hill
Adjunct Associate Professor, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health; Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch Chief at CDC
Built environment, climate and health, infectious disease
Wesley Longhofer
Goizueta Foundation Term Associate Professor of Organization & Management, Executive Academic Director, Business & Society Institute
Policy, energy, organizations, social movements, globalization
Yang Liu
Professor and Chair, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health
Satellite aerosol retrieval and product design, the application of satellite data in public health, and GIS and spatial statistics
Ying Zhou
Adjunct Associate Professor, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health
Air pollution, climate and health, environmental health, global health, risk assessment
Yun Hang
Post Doctoral Fellow, Environmental Health
Intersection of climate change, air quality, and human health