Amruta Nori-Sarma

Amruta Nori-Sarma is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Population Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Climate Health and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) and co-leads the CAFE Research Coordinating Center (RCC) under the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative, a collaboration with Boston University School of Public Health.

• PhD in Environmental Health from Yale University School of the Environment (2019)
• MPH in Environmental Health from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (2012)
• BSE in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University (2008)

As an environmental epidemiologist, Dr. Nori-Sarma investigates climate change-linked environmental exposures and their health impacts, particularly focusing on:

• Mental health effects of extreme weather events using large health claims datasets
• Air pollution and heatwave mortality in India
• Policy evaluation for mitigating climate-related health risks
• Heatwave impacts on emergency department visits in the US
• Optimal placement of cooling centers for vulnerable populations
• Wildfire exposure effects on cancer care delivery

Her recent work trends include:

• Interdisciplinary climate-health modeling
• PM2.5 spatiotemporal analysis in India
• Climate risk for marginalized communities
• Healthcare system resilience during disasters
• Policy-driven climate adaptation strategies

Dr. Nori-Sarma leads initiatives to amplify diverse climate-health research communities through NIH's CAFE RCC and Harvard's C-CHANGE. Her methodological contributions include open-source spatial analysis tools for resource access evaluation.