Zoë Chafe

Dr. Chafe works at the intersections of public health, air pollution, climate change, and energy use. She holds a PhD from the Energy and Resources Group (ERG), as well as an MPH from UC Berkeley. She has been a researcher/consultant for entities such as the World Health Organization, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the Health Effects Institute, and the City of Oakland, California. She served as Chapter Scientist for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) chapter on climate change and human health. Dr. Chafe is a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. Dissertation Our Breaths We Take: Outdoor Air Quality, Health, and Climate Change Consequences of Household Heating and Cooking with Solid Fuels Fields of Research

• Air pollution
• Climate change
• Human health
• Energy systems

Publications

• Analysis of Health Impacts and Safety Risks and Other Issues/Concerns Related to the Transport, Handing, Transloading, and Storage of Coal and/or Petroleum Coke (Petcoke) in Oakland and at the Proposed Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal. Requested by Councilmember Dan Kalb, City of Oakland. (2016)
• Residential Heating with Wood and Coal: Health Impacts and Policy Options in Europe and North America. World Health Organization. Requested by UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Task Force on Health. (2015)
• Household Cooking with Solid Fuels Contributes to Ambient PM2.5 Air Pollution and the Burden of Disease. Environmental Health Perspectives, 122(12):1314-1320. (2014)
• Human Health: Impacts, Adaptation, and Co-benefits. In Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report. Cambridge University Press. (2014)

Education PhD, Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley, May 2016 MPH, University of California, Berkeley, May 2011 Honors/Awards

• Cornell University Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future Postdoctoral Fellowship
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Teaching

• Health Implications of Climate Change (UC Berkeley)
• Global Environmental Change for Health Scientists (UC Berkeley)

References Kirk R. Smith (krksmith@berkeley.edu) Michael Jerrett (mjerrett@ucla.edu) Peter Hess (Cornell University, peter.hess@cornell.edu) Dan Kammen (kammen@berkeley.edu) Links

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

Contact zoe.chafe@cornell.edu