Yang Liu, PhD, is the Gangarosa Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Rollins. An environmental engineer by training, his research interests include satellite aerosol retrieval and product design, applications of satellite remote sensing in environmental exposure assessment and public health research, potential health impacts of global climate change, machine learning and spatial statistics. For the past four years, he has been involved in multiple climate change and environmental justice projects focusing on communities in Atlanta and Georgia.

Noah Scovronick, PhD, is a Rollins Assistant Professor in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Rollins. His research focuses on understanding the links between human health, climate change, and climate policy. This includes epidemiological studies of climate-sensitive health risks such as heat, pollen, and air pollution, as well as analyses that quantify the health co-benefits of climate action.

Angela Rozo has served as a professional public health project administrator for multiple NIH/FIC projects since 2016 and has worked in higher education administration in the Hubert Department of Global Health and the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health since 2007. She handles the coordination, communications, and resource management of CHART.

Nikki Rider, ScD, is the interim director for the Center for Program Evaluation and Quality Improvement (PEQI) at the Emory Centers for Public Health Training and Technical Assistance. In that role, she oversees team members on the design and implementation of all aspects of PEQI-led evaluations. Her expertise includes study design, survey methodology, primary and secondary data analysis, data visualization, and the translation of findings for diverse audiences.

Howard Chang, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Rollins. His research interests focus on the statistical and computational methods for analyzing complex spatial-temporal exposure and health data. He has led/co-led multiple NIH projects to investigate health effects of environmental exposures, including extreme heat.

Stefanie Ebelt, ScD, is an associate professor in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Rollins School of Public Health. She brings a long-standing commitment to exposure science and epidemiological research in environmental health along with experience in program leadership and mentoring.

Christine Ekenga, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Rollins School of Public Health. She is a community-engaged environmental epidemiologist, with a focus on the health impacts of environmental and occupational hazards.

Eri Saikawa, PhD, is an associate professor of environmental health and a Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Environmental Sciences at Emory. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature, and it spans from 3D chemical transport modeling to land modeling to environmental policy. Saikawa has experience in personal exposure assessment, especially in low-resource settings.

Melanie Pearson, PhD, has led community engagement activities for the last ten years, building strong partnerships with local communities and coalescing Atlanta’s environmental health stakeholders. She has experience building community-academic partnerships in multiple programs and as an environmental health scientist. Pearson provides scientific oversight and leadership to the CEC.

Saria Hassan, MD, is an assistant professor of internal medicine at the School of Medicine and global health at Rollins. Her research is focused on applying community and stakeholder engaged research methods using implementation science principles to address the needs of vulnerable population in the setting of climate change and natural disasters. Hassan will provide scientific oversight and leadership for the Participatory Group Model Building (GMB) efforts.

Carla Lewis will provide oversight and leadership for ECO-Action’s youth summer program and the technical assistance that Eco-Action’s program coordinator will provide to CHART community grantees. She has been the executive director for Eco-Action for the last two years, overseeing the implementation of Eco-Action’s EPA EJ Small Grant Program, “Moving from Surviving to Thriving: Underserved Communities Building Resilience and Adapting to Climate Change.”

Linelle Blais, PhD, is a research associate professor in the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at Rollins. She has demonstrated success in developing and leading capacity building initiatives and strategies through tailored learning and professional development opportunities for diverse types of health professionals, organizations, and communities within a state, regionally (in the South), and nationwide. Blais brings her expertise to the CHART by serving as core lead of the Research Capacity Building Core.

Tom Clasen, PhD, is a professor in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Rollins. He is an environmental epidemiologist with extensive experience leading large randomized controlled trials of household- and community-based environmental health interventions to address climate-related risks in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Clasen will support CHART by serving as lead of the pilot research program.

Sophia Lamb is a training specialist for the Emory Centers for Public Health Training and Technical Assistance, as well as the Region IV Public Health Training Center. Within CHART, she helps develop heat and health- related webinars for clinical professionals and supports the pilot research program.

Amy Lovvorn works with research projects in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Rollins and the School of Nursing.  Her primary experience includes managing international randomized controlled trials involving women’s reproductive health as well as household- and community-based interventions to address environmental health risks. Amy coordinates selected activities with the pilot grant awardees.

Lillian Madrigal, PhD, is the director of implementation science and practice at the Emory Centers for Public Health Training and Technical Assistance and an assistant research professor of behavioral, social, and health education sciences. Her work focuses on the implementation and evaluation of evidence-based interventions to promote health behaviors and outcomes, and professional development and scaling of the public health workforce. Madrigal brings subject matter expertise on implementation research, project leadership, curriculum development, capacity building training and technical assistance, and communities of practice.

Rebecca Philipsborn, MD, is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the School of Medicine. Her work focuses on the collective understanding and consideration of the environmental-child-health interface in clinical care, teaching, and research to support children’s health today and tomorrow.

M. Daniele Fallin, PhD, is the James W. Curran Dean of Public Health at Rollins and is globally recognized for her work on how environment, behaviors, genetic variation, and epigenetic variation contribute to risk for psychiatric disease, particularly autism. She was the founding director of the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She led the Maryland site of the Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) and of the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI) for over a decade.

Carmen Marsit, PhD, is the Rollins Distinguished Professor of Research, a professor of environmental health and epidemiology, and the executive associate dean for research at Rollins School of Public Health. He directs the NIH P30 HERCULES Exposome Research Center and the NIEHS T32 Training Program in the Environmental Health Sciences and Toxicology at Emory. He has expertise in environmental health and a strong commitment to the training of next-generation researchers, particularly those from under-represented backgrounds.

Linda McCauley, PhD, is dean of Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, on the governing council of the National Academy of Medicine, and previously served on the National Advisory Council to NIEHS. McCauley’s research focuses on the intersection of environmental and occupational health and nursing using community engagement. She is globally recognized for her three decades of environmental and occupational health research. In the last decade, she has been studying the effects of climate change and heat exposure in vulnerable populations including reproductive health in Florida farmworkers exposed to pesticides, heat, and musculoskeletal stress.

Deborah Bruner, PhD, is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor in Nursing and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. As Emory’s senior vice president for research, Bruner oversees research support, training, innovation, and commercialization services and resources across the entire Emory enterprise. Bruner has played a pivotal role in establishing the Provost’s Emory Climate Research Initiative (ECRI) in 2022 with representatives from all academic units of Emory including Rollins; the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Law, and Theology; Goizueta School of Business; Emory College; and Oxford College.

Patrick Kinney, ScD, is the Beverly A. Brown Professor of Urban Health at Boston University School of Public Health. His research interests include exposure assessment, indoor and outdoor air pollution epidemiology, climate risk factors on health such as heat exposure, and the health benefits of carbon emission reduction strategies in cities, including those related to greenspace and non-motorized transport infrastructure in both domestic and international settings. He was the lead author of IPCC AR5 Chapter 26: North America and is a current member of US EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors Air, Climate and Energy Committee. He was the founding director of the Climate and Health Program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where he also served as the principal investigator of a NIEHS T32 training grant in climate and health. Currently, Kinney co-directs the Urban Climate Initiative at Boston University.

Drew Shindell, PhD, is the Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth Science at Duke University. Shindell’s research focuses on global climate change, climate variability, air quality, and the interactions of these with human society. He chaired the 2011 UNEP/WMO Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone, and was a coordinating lead author on the 2013 Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC and on the 2018 IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C. He is an elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a member of US EPA’s Science Advisory Board.

Marshall Shepherd, PhD, is the Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Georgia. His research focuses primarily on hydrometeorological extremes, urban climate, and the intersections of atmospheric sciences with society. He uses remote sensing, weather-climate modeling, and risk-vulnerability approaches to address challenges such as heat, urban flooding, energy-food-water nexus, weather-climate risk, and communication-warnings. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Shepherd was the 2013 president of the American Meteorological Society, the nation’s largest and oldest professional/science society in the natural and related sciences. He is also an expert in science communication and the host of The Weather Channel’s award-winning Sunday talk show Weather Geeks, a pioneering Sunday talk show on national television dedicated to science.

Armistead Russell, PhD, is the Howard T. Tellepsen Chair and Regents Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Russell’s research is aimed at approaches to improve air quality and health, develop novel technologies to remove pollutants – including carbon dioxide – from emissions, and develop advanced modeling methods to tackle environmental problems. Through this work, he has collaborated extensively with environmental health faculty at Rollins. Russell was a member of the EPA’s Clean Air Science Advisory Committee (CASAC) and a member of the National Research Council’s Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, and he continues to serve on associated committees. He chaired EPA’s CASAC NOx-SOx, Secondary NAAQS review panel, the Ambient Air Monitoring Methods Subcommittee, and the Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis’ Air Quality Modeling Subcommittee and was on the Health Effects Institute’s Report Review Committee.