YSPH Climate Change and Health Seminar with Dr. Jonathan Buonocore, "Health and the energy transition"

Jonathan Buonocore, Sc.D. is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. His research mainly focuses on evaluating the health impacts of energy systems, and modeling health “co-benefits” of climate mitigation strategies and energy policies, largely in the United States. He has evaluated air pollution related health impacts from a number of sectors, including electricity generation, transportation, buildings, and oil and gas production. He has also modeled the health co-benefits of energy policies and climate mitigation strategies including further buildout of renewable energy in the United States, Federal carbon emissions standards on power plants, carbon cap-and-invest policies for transportation in the Northeast U.S., and building electrification. His current and future research includes assessing health benefits of emissions standards for buildings, understanding community exposure to hazards and environmental justice issues around energy infrastructure, and employing remote sensing to evaluate exposure to oil & gas and other anthropogenic methane sources.