Patrick Kinney is Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He directs the new Columbia Climate and Health Program (CCHP) and serves on the Academic Committee of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. The CCHP fosters and coordinates multi-disciplinary research, teaching and translation on the human health dimensions of climate change, with the goal of advancing society’s capacity to understand, anticipate, and prevent adverse health consequences. Prof Kinney’s teaching and research address issues at the intersection of global environmental change, human health, and policy, with an emphasis on the public health impacts of climate change and air pollution. He has published extensively on the human health effects and environmental justice aspects of air pollution in urban areas. Working with climate and air quality modelers, he has examined future health impacts of alternative climate change and emissions scenarios in the U.S. Current research inititatives examine climate influences on meningitis outbreaks in Africa and on pollen and allergy in New York. He also directs ongoing research on indoor and outdoor air quality and health in Africa.
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