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M. Patricia Fabian is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and Associate Director at the Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS). She leads the Sustainable Built Environment Lab and is affiliated with the Hariri Institute for Computing, the Center for Climate and Health, and the URBAN training program. Her work bridges systems science, climate risk, and health equity through interdisciplinary research.
Education:
- ScD, Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- MS, Environmental Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
- BS, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Dr. Fabian's research focuses on energy-indoor air quality-health tradeoffs in decarbonization initiatives, heat vulnerability in cities, and environmental health disparities in low-income housing. She integrates big data (electronic health records, remote sensing, geospatial databases) into systems models to assess interventions like building retrofits and cooling strategies.
Her recent publications highlight heat resilience in schools, CO2 monitoring for ventilation, PM2.5 mortality risks, and asthma interventions in multi-family housing. Projects include the Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (NOAA-funded) and Building Response to Extreme Heat (Barr Foundation). She serves on the Massachusetts Climate Science Advisory Panel and contributed to the 80×50 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Study.
