About me
Robbie M. Parks, PhD's research focuses on the intersections of climate change, public health, and equity, using quantitative methods to understand and address health impacts. He is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and an NIH NIEHS K99/R00 Fellow, with funding from NIH, the Wellcome Trust, NSF, and other sources; several of his lab’s publications have been recognized as NIEHS papers of the year and month. He teaches multiple graduate courses at Columbia, leads advanced training programs in Bayesian modeling and climate-health attribution, and mentors trainees across all academic levels. His academic training includes a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia’s Earth Institute/Climate School, a PhD from Imperial College London, and a BA/MA in Physics from the University of Oxford. His work has been featured in major media outlets including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and National Geographic. He is a first-generation academic of Filipino heritage and a fellow of both the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice program and the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science.Photos
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