Pathways to Global Health: Climate Change and Health

Join us for this informal in-person session for Harvard undergraduates to connect with our current 2023 HGHI Burke Climate and Health Fellows, Annikki Herranen-Tabibi, PhD, and Jenny Lee, PhD. Learn about their career journeys in the intersection of climate change and health — over pizzas and soft drinks!

Annikki Herranen-Tabibi (she/her) is a medical and environmental anthropologist of the Circumpolar Arctic. She is engaged in long-term ethnographic research in Sápmi, the transborder homeland of the Indigenous Sámi people. Her scholarly work defines a space for research and collaborative action at the intersections of global health with medical and environmental humanities and social sciences. Across these arenas, her work is grounded in questions of care – interpersonal, intergenerational, and ecological.

Jenny Lee is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health . She received an M.S. in Biostatistics from Yale University and received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Harvard University. Her work has focused on assessing the health impacts of air pollution on vulnerable populations, including pregnant women, children, and the elderly, with an aim to find policy implications that provide actionable insights for policymakers. Her research focuses on developing statistical methods for assessing the impact of exposure to multi-pollutant mixtures during pregnancy on high-dimensional epigenetic markers in newborns, and developing causal inference methods for clustered data in environmental health to assess effects of air pollution on socioeconomically disadvantaged children and elderly in the U.S.