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Human Health and Safety Sector Contributors

The Technical Workgroup (TWG) conducted much of the day-to-day work of the assessment. Each TWG was guided by co-chairs who served as lead authors/convening lead authors of their sector’s chapter and provided overall leadership of their TWG’s activities. 

Co-chairs 

  • Janice Barnes, Climate Adaptation Partners
  • Perry Sheffield, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Technical Working Group Members 

  • Nathan Graber, Albany Medical Center
  • Sonal Jessel, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
  • Kevin Lanza, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Vijay S. Limaye, Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Faustenia Morrow, Monarch of Infinite Possibilities
  • Anjali Sauthoff, Westchester County Climate Crisis Task Force and Environmental Health Consultant
  • Michael Schmeltz, Department of Public Health, California State University at East Bay
  • Shavonne Smith, Environmental Department, Shinnecock Indian Nation