YSPH Climate Change and Health Seminar with Dr. Gary Adamkiewicz, "Indoor Environments in a Changing World: Urbanization and Climate and their Implications for Health Equity"

Gary Adamkiewicz is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), where he leads the Healthy Cities Lab. Dr. Adamkiewicz’s work focuses on the connections between housing and health, and on understanding disparities in environmental exposures. His research has included studies of indoor environmental conditions within the homes of children with asthma, and studies that aim to understand the housing factors that contribute to environmental risks, with a focus on low-income communities. He has worked with national, state, and local agencies on projects that aim to reduce the burden of disease from environmental issues. Dr. Adamkiewicz has served as a member of the Science Advisory Committee for the National Center for Healthy Housing and has served on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Technical Guidance Review Panel, under the auspices of the agency’s Science Advisory Board. He has also served as an advisor to the World Health Organization’s effort to establish indoor air quality guidelines. Dr. Adamkiewicz holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Public Health from HSPH.