Jill Baumgartner
Full Professor and William Dawson Scholar;
Associate Member of the Beiler School of Environment;
Director, McGill Centre for Climate Change and Health
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Dr. Baumgartner studies exposure to environmental pollutants and their affect on human health in the context of urbanization and development. She holds a joint Ph.D. in Population Health Sciences and Environment & Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Masters in Population and International Health from Harvard University. She was a Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow at the Institute on the Environment (University of Minnesota) from 2011-2013 and a visiting researcher at Tsinghua University in 2012.
(1) evaluating the health benefits of energy and environmental interventions in developing countries;
(2) investigating the impacts of air pollution composition and sources on health;
(3) understanding the chronic disease impacts of environmental exposures over the life course