Our health experts

  • Alkafaji, Roya
    Manager, Healthy Communities

    Areas of expertise: Lead in drinking water, water quality, environmental health, children’s health

  • Browning, Dominique
    Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund; Director and Co-Founder, Moms Clean Air Force

    Areas of expertise: Climate, air pollution, children's health, public health, soot, ozone, advanced recycling, petrochemicals, methane, mercury, toxics, electric school buses, clean transportation

  • Chow, Jennifer
    Senior Director, Climate-Resilient Food Systems

    Areas of expertise:

  • DePaola, Mindi
    Senior Manager, Community and Equity, Agriculture Methane

    Areas of expertise: Air pollution, community engagement, environmental justice

  • Doa, Maria
    Senior Director, Chemicals Policy

    Areas of expertise: Chemical safety, science policy, risk policy, lead, nanotechnology

  • Draper, Maia
    Senior Policy Manager, Climate and Health

    Areas of expertise: Air quality, emissions mitigation strategies, policy and program development, ports, transportation, air quality mapping, community engagement

  • Ellis, Lauren
    Research Analyst, Environmental Health

    Areas of expertise: Environmental health, federal policy and regulation, chemical risk analysis, systematic review, data analysis

  • Fiksel, Liora
    Project Manager, Healthy Communities

    Areas of expertise: Environmental health, safer chemistry, food additives

  • Gohlke, Julia
    Lead Senior Scientist, Health

    Areas of expertise: Climate and health, heat and flood related health outcomes, developmental toxicology

  • González Whitaker, Isabel
    Associate Vice President for Public Engagement, Moms Clean Air Force

    Areas of expertise: Climate, air pollution, children’s health, environmental justice, public health, soot, ozone, advanced recycling, petrochemicals, methane, mercury, toxics, electric school buses, clean transportation

  • Harris, Maria
    Senior Scientist

    Areas of expertise: Air quality, environmental epidemiology, exposure assessment, children's health, neurodevelopment

  • Liskow, Samantha
    Lead Counsel, Health

    Areas of expertise:

  • Lo, Fiona
    Climate Scientist

    Areas of expertise: Climate change, pollen, machine learning, atmospheric dynamics, climate modeling and hydrology

  • McCormick, Lindsay
    Senior Program Manager, Safer Chemicals

    Areas of expertise: Environmental health, chemical safety, children’s health

  • Padilla, Lauren
    VoLo Senior Environmental Data Scientist

    Areas of expertise: Air quality, environmental systems modeling, fate and transport, data science, sensors

  • Patton, Vickie
    General Counsel

    Areas of expertise: Law, climate change, air quality, clean energy

  • Pratt, Jack
    Senior Political Director, Political Affairs

    Areas of expertise:

  • Roy, Ananya
    Senior Health Scientist

    Areas of expertise: Air quality, lead, cardiovascular disease, neurodevelopment

  • Sánchez, Sergio
    Senior Policy Director, Global Clean Air

    Areas of expertise: Climate and clean air policy, international development, integrated environmental management systems, comprehensive air quality management, sustainable transport, United Nations

  • Slaney, Joanna
    AVP, Political Affairs

    Areas of expertise: Federal government, climate, clean air, public health and chemicals policy