Amruta Nori-Sarma

Biography

Amruta Nori-Sarma is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Population Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As an environmental epidemiologist, Dr. Nori-Sarma studies the relationship between environmental exposures associated with climate change and health outcomes in vulnerable communities. Dr. Nori-Sarma aims to understand the impacts of interrelated extreme weather events on mental health across the US utilizing large claims datasets. She also has an interest in evaluating the success of policies put in place to reduce the health impacts of climate change.

Additionally, Dr. Nori-Sarma serves as one of the leads of the CAFE RCC, the research coordinating center of the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative. CAFE, a joint effort with the BU School of Public Health, aims to bring together and amplify the work of a more diverse community of practice in climate and health.

Education and Training

• MPH, Environmental Health
  Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
• BSE, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Princeton University
• PhD, Environmental Health
  Yale University School of Environment

Publications

• Estimating the effect of annual PM2·5 exposure on mortality in India: a difference-in-differences approach.

  Jaganathan S, Stafoggia M, Rajiva A, Mandal S, Dixit S, de Bont J, Wellenius GA, Lane KJ, Nori-Sarma A, Kloog I, Prabhakaran D, Prabhakaran P, Schwartz J, Ljungman P. Lancet Planet Health 2024

• Nationwide analysis of air pollution hotspots across India: A spatiotemporal PM2.5 trend analysis (2008-2019).

  Jaganathan S, Rajiva A, Amini H, de Bont J, Dixit S, Dutta A, Kloog I, Lane KJ, Menon JS, Nori-Sarma A, Prabhakaran D, Schwartz J, Sharma P, Stafoggia M, Walia GK, Wellenius GA, Prabhakaran P, Ljungman P, Mandal S. Environ Res 2025 Jan 01

• Daily heat and mortality among people experiencing homelessness in 2 urban US counties, 2015-2022.

  Lin Z, Weinberger E, Nori-Sarma A, Chinchilla M, Wellenius GA, Jay J. Am J Epidemiol 2024 Nov 04

• Generalizability of Heat-related Health Risk Associations Observed in a Large Healthcare Claims Database of Patients with Commercial Health Insurance.

  Milando CW, Sun Y, Romitti Y, Nori-Sarma A, Gause EL, Spangler KR, Sue Wing I, Wellenius GA. Epidemiology 2024 Nov 01

• Critically examining research funding patterns for climate change and human health

  Sovacool BK, Clifford H, Pearl-Martinez R, Gause E, Braun D, Kamareddine L, Nori-Sarma A, Wellenius GA. Nature Climate Action 2025