Kari C Nadeau
John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies
Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Departments
Department of Environmental Health
Other Positions
Chair, Department of Environmental Health
Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Professor of Medicine
;Medicine-Beth Israel Deaconess, Harvard Medical School
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Biography
Dr. Kari Nadeau is the Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health, a physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, and John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies. She practices Allergy, Asthma, Immunology in children and adults. She has published over 400+ papers in high impact, peer reviewed journals. Dr. Nadeau, with a team of researchers and patients and families, has been able to help major progress and impact in the clinical fields of immunology, infection, asthma and allergy. Her research focuses on the impact of environmental factors, especially solutions to air pollution and severe weather conditions, with a special emphasis on groups like children. Dr. Nadeau is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the U.S. EPA Children's Health Protection Committee.
For more than 30 years, she has devoted herself to understanding how environmental and genetic factors affect the risk of developing allergies and asthma, especially wildfire-induced air pollution. Her laboratory has been studying air pollution and wildfire effects on children and adults, including wildland firefighters. Many of the health issues involving individuals and the public are increasing because of global changes, sustainability practices, and extreme weather conditions. She oversees a team working on air pollution and wildfire research along with a multidisciplinary group of community leaders, firefighters, engineers, scientists, lawyers, and policy makers. Dr. Nadeau was appointed as a member of the U.S. Federal Wildfire Commission in 2022.
She also launched four biotech companies, She teaches classes and advises researchers and faculty. She is a scientific advisory board member of the WHO. She also has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the U.S. EPA and on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the NIH Clinical Center.
Dr. Nadeau earned her MD/PhD from Harvard Medical School in 1995, completing her doctoral work in biochemistry and immunology, followed by a pediatric internship and residency. She moved to California for a fellowship in the Stanford-UCSF Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Program (2003-2006), joining the Stanford Medical School faculty as an instructor, followed by promotions to assistant professor (2008), associate professor (2011), and professor (2015).
