Patricia Fabian
Professor, Environmental Health, School of Public Health; Associate Director, Institute for Global Sustainability
Patricia Fabian, is a Professor of Environmental Health at the School of Public Health and Associate Director at the Institute for Global Sustainability at Boston University. She founded the Sustainable Built Environment Lab, which conducts research on extreme heat resilience in cities, indoor air quality in schools and homes, and energy transitions in the built environment.
Dr. Fabian’s research teams are highly interdisciplinary. Her research group has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, and her expert opinion is often sought by members of the media. Dr. Fabian was a Steering Committee member for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs on the 80×50 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Study and currently serves on the Massachusetts Climate Science Advisory Panel. She is a faculty affiliate of the BUSPH Center for Climate and Health, BU URBAN, and the BU Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering.