Gregory Wellenius

Gregory Wellenius, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), serves as the Beverly A. Brown Professor for the Improvement of Urban Health, a Professor in the Department of Environmental Health, and Director of the BUSPH Center for Climate and Health. He is an environmental epidemiologist committed to reducing the health threats of continued climate change through research, training, and engagement. He co-leads the NIH-funded CAFE Research Coordinating Center to support the global health and extreme weather research community and other efforts focused on building global capacity to accelerate climate and health research.

Prior to joining the faculty at BU in 2020, Dr. Wellenius served as Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health and Director of Brown’s Center for Environmental Health and Technology. Prior to that, he earned a doctoral degree jointly from the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Cardiovascular Division of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and served as Instructor in Medicine at BIDMC and Harvard Medical School. He has published extensively on the cardiovascular effects of ambient air pollution, contributed to the US EPA’s 2009 Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter, provided invited expert testimony on this topic before the US House of Representatives and the US Senate, and served as a co-author of the 4th National Climate Assessment of the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). He is the 2019 winner of the ISEE Tony McMichael Mid-Term Career Award. Dr. Wellenius previously served as a visiting scientist with Google and currently serves on the Research Committee of the Health Effects Institute.

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