Speakers
Marie O'Neil
Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
University of Michigan
Biography:
Marie O'Neill is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research interests include health effects of air pollution and climate change. She and colleagues at Michigan and Harvard have been working with ICLEI on an EPA-funded study of heatwaves and hospital admissions in 101 U.S. cities. The project aims to understand what individual characteristics (e.g., health status, age) as well features of communities (e.g., presence of heatwave warning programs, levels of poverty, green space) affect people's vulnerability to heat. She participated in the 2008 U.S. Climate Change Science Program 'Analyses of the effects of global change on human health and welfare and human systems', authoring the section on thermal extremes. She has a B.A. from Brown University, an M.S. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked for the Narragansett Bay Commission, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Pan American Health Organization, and in Mexico at the National Institute of Public Health and the National Center for Environmental Health.