Zoë Chafe is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University and fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, where her work spot­lights the ambi­ent air pol­lu­tion, health, and cli­mate effects of household energy use. At ERG, Dr. Chafe was a National Science Foundation Grad­u­ate Research Fel­low. She has served as the IPCC AR5 Human Health Chap­ter Sci­en­tist, a lead author of the Global Energy Assess­ment (2012), con­sul­tant to the WHO Euro­pean Cen­tre for Envi­ron­ment and Health, and found­ing direc­tor of the UC Berke­ley Cli­mate Change and Health Ide­aLab. Prior to ERG, she was a research asso­ciate with the World­watch Insti­tute in Wash­ing­ton, DC. She holds an MPH from UC Berke­ley and a BA in Human Biol­ogy from Stan­ford University.

Links

• LinkedIn
• Household Energy, Climate, and Health Research Group

Publications

• Residential heating with wood and coal: health impacts and policy options in Europe and North America
• Household Cooking with Solid Fuels Contributes to Ambient PM2.5 Air Pollution and the Burden of Disease
• Human Health: Impacts, Adaptation, and Co-benefits (IPCC AR5 Working Group II Chapter 11)
• Climate change and health: on the latest IPCC report
• A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990—2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
• Energy and Human Health
• 2012: Chapter 4 – Energy and Health in Global Energy Assessment – Toward a Sustainable Future
• The impact of household cooking and heating with solid fuels on ambient PM2.5 in peri-urban Beijing