YCCCH Seminar Series: "The climate and health benefits from intensive building energy efficiency improvements"

Join us for this seminar with Drew Gentner and Kenneth Gillingham, hosted by the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health. Dr. Gentner will join us in person at LEPH 115 and Dr. Gillingham will join us virtually.

Registration is required. Members of the Yale community are welcome to join us in LEPH 115; all others may stream the event online.

Prior to attending U.C. Berkeley for his M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2012), Drew Gentner received dual B.S. degrees in Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Northwestern in 2007. He has been at Yale in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering since 2014. His research group focuses on air quality, pollutant emissions, and atmospheric chemistry, with applications in both outdoor and indoor environments.

Kenneth Gillingham is a Professor of Economics at Yale University, with a primary appointment in the School of the Environment and secondary appointments in the Department of Economics and School of Management. He is an energy and environmental economist drawing from the fields of applied microeconomics, industrial organization, and energy modeling. His research examines the adoption of new energy technologies, energy efficiency, quantitative policy and program analysis, and climate change policy. He has published widely on consumer decisions in energy efficiency and renewable energy, as well as on climate and energy policy. He currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Review of Economics & Statistics and is on the Editorial Board at the Energy Journal. Prior to joining Yale, was a Fulbright Fellow in New Zealand and a Fellow, then later Senior Economist, for Energy and the Environment at the White House Council of Economic Advisers.