Kari Nadeau

Kari C. Nadeau is the Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health and John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies. She is adjunct professor at Stanford University in the Department of Pediatrics and the co-chair of the Medical Societies Consortium for Climate Change and Health. She practices Allergy, Asthma, Immunology in children and adults. She has published over 400+ papers, many in the field of climate change and health. Her team focuses on quantifying health outcomes of solutions as they pertain climate change mitigation and adaptation at the local, regional, country, and global levels. Dr. Nadeau, with a team of individuals and patients and families, has been able to help major progress and impact in the clinical fields of immunology, infection, asthma, and allergy. Dr. Nadeau is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the U.S. EPA [https://www.epa.gov/children/chpac Children’s Health Protection Committee].

For more than 30 years, she has devoted herself to understanding how environmental and genetic factors affect the risk of developing human disease. Her laboratory has been studying pollution effects on children and adults. Many of the health issues involving individuals and the public are increasing because of global warming, and extreme weather conditions. She oversees a team working with a multidisciplinary group of community leaders, engineers, scientists, lawyers, and policy makers. Dr. Nadeau was appointed as a member of the U.S. Federal Wildfire Commission in 2022.

Dr. Nadeau works with other organizations and institutes across the world. She works with the WHO on a scoping review and report for health ministers and policy makers on wildland fires and/or air pollution: how to mitigate, adapt, and follow UN SDG’s to create resiliency and co-benefits in communities, especially LMICs.

Dr. Nadeau and her team perform research in the prevention and therapy of disease. She also launched four biotech companies, and founded the [https://climatehealthequity.stanford.edu/ Climate Change and Health Equity Task Force] and started the Sustainability Health Seed Grant initiative and Climate Change and Health Fellowship program. She also developed climate change and health courses, including a global masters class to teach Climate and Sustainability around the globe. She has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the U.S. EPA.

She works as a member of the UNEA through Harvard to work on environmental health and planetary health governance and policy. She is also a member of the [https://developingchild.harvard.edu/ Center for the Early Development of the Child] scientific committee at Harvard.

Dr. Nadeau is a Faculty Associate at [https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/ The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability] and works with the [https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/ Harvard Global Health Initiative] and with the [https://fxb.harvard.edu/ FXB center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University]. She is the director of the [https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/ Harvard Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment]. Through these programs Dr. Nadeau works directly with Environmental Justice, global,  regional, and local communities.

Her groundbreaking research has pioneered the field of allergies, asthma, and immunology, specifically in food allergies, pollution-induced asthma, and COVID-19. Dr. Nadeau’s studies have demonstrated that exposures to water and air pollution can modify the DNA of all ages of individuals and can lead to respiratory, allergic, and immune disorders.

With her laboratory and team, Dr. Nadeau conducted research showing prescribed burns vs wildfire smoke was less harmful to communities. She also was responsible for running the first clinical trial to treat multiple food allergies. Dr. Nadeau and her laboratory discovered novel mechanisms of STAT5a and STAT5b transcriptional factors to help understand the human immune system. Provided by Wikipedia