Jeremy Hess

Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences UW

Dr. Hess is a residency-trained, board-certified emergency medicine physician with additional training in global environmental health. He pursued undergraduate studies at Deep Springs College and Brown University and his medical, residency, and public health training at Emory University. He joined the University of Washington (UW) faculty in 2015, where he practices medicine, conducts research, and teaches and is director of the UW Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE). Dr. Hess served as the senior medical advisor to the Climate and Health Program in the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2006 to 2015. He has been awarded a range of grants from federal funders including CDC, NIH, NASA, NOAA, and NSF, and from foundations including the Wellcome Trust and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is an author on the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and a contributor to the Global Burden of Disease project. He has also served as a Lead Author on the third US National Climate Assessment and on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation and is a lead author on the health, wellbeing, and migration chapter of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.