P. Gregg Greenough of Harvard Humanitarian Institute is Guest Speaker at Nov. 2 EH Seminar.
P. Gregg Greenough, director of research of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, is the featured speaker at the Nov. 2 seminar sponsored by the BUSPH Department of Environmental Health
His topic: “Bringing Climate Science to Public Health: Population-based Applications for Disaster Preparedness”
Dr. Greenough, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, and an attending emergency physician in the Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs at Brigham and Womens Hospital
Summary:
Climatology and the atmospheric sciences have advanced our understanding of current and future climate effects through modeling and analog techniques. In this continuing seminar of the Environmental Health Department series, “Climate Change: Science, Health, and Policy,” Dr. Greenough will discuss the cognitive disconnect between the sophisticated modeling of climate change, extreme weather events and the ability to translate these to populations at risk, especially those that are rapidly urbanizing in harms way.This session will highlight the interaction that needs to happen between the climatic sciences and the population-based methods of epidemiology and demography, using tools such as mapping and geospatial analysis, for translation into local and regional preparedness and response.
P. Gregg GreenoughBio: Dr. Greenough has worked extensively in applying epidemiologic methods to public health problems within conflict- and disaster-affected populations. After graduating from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (1989), he completed a residency and fellowship in Emergency Medicine at UCLA (1997) and earned an MPH at Johns Hopkins University (1998). He held joint faculty positions in Emergency Medicine and International Health at Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health while working at the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response there.
Dr. Greenough has worked in relief operations in the Balkans, Central America, Africa, the US, and the Palestinian Territories and has researched disaster preparedness in Tanzania; protracted refugee health in Kenya, Tanzania, and Colombia; the burden of disease in the Hurricane Katrina displaced population; the effects of landmines on human security in Angola; and has directed two national nutrition and food security studies and an emergency medicine development project in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
As Research Director of HHI, Dr. Greenough provides senior leadership in establishing the Initiative’s research agenda, designing and implementing field studies, supervising the analysis of data, interpreting data to relevant humanitarian stakeholders and the academic world, and mentoring the next generation of humanitarian health workers.
He is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and continues to practice emergency medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital as an attending physician and faculty member of Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs in the Department of Emergency Medicine.