A profile
Kristie L. Ebi has spent more than two decades working on the health risks of climate variability and change, and on the adaptation measures that can reduce them.
She leads the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington, where she also holds the Rohm and Haas chair in public health sciences. Her work on climate and health spans heat, extreme weather, food systems and vectorborne disease.
She has worked with countries in several regions on vulnerability assessments and adaptation, and she helps develop new climate scenarios for research and policy.
At ISEE 2019 she brought the climate and health perspective to the plenary programme.
Profile note This summary was prepared for the archive from the public 2019 speaker listing.
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