Patrick Kinney

Professor, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University

Patrick Kinney is professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. There, he directs the Columbia Climate and Health Program and serves on the faculty of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. The Climate and Health Program fosters and coordinates multi-disciplinary research, teaching, and translation on the human health dimensions of climate change, with the goal of advancing society’s capacity to understand, anticipate, and prevent adverse health consequences. 

Professor Kinney’s teaching and research address issues at the intersection of global environmental change, human health, and policy, with an emphasis on the public health benefis and impacts of urbanization. He has published extensively on the human health effects and environmental justice aspects of air pollution in urban areas. Working with climate and air quality modelers, he has examined future health impacts of alternative climate change and emissions scenarios. Current research inititatives examine the global health co-benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation strategies, and how climate affects pollen and allergy in New York City.  He also directs ongoing research on indoor and outdoor air quality and health in Africa.
 
Professor Kinney received his bachelors degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his master and doctorate of science at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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