UH Climate Health

The UH Climate Health program is a new University-wide effort to address challenges at the interface of population health, natural hazards, environmental equity, and climate change through transdisciplinary research, education and training, and community outreach and engagement.

Leadership

Bettina Beech is the Chief Population Health Officer at the University of Houston and a clinical professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences at the UH College of Medicine.

Hanadi Rifai is the director of the Hurricane Resilience Research Institute and Moores Professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.