Arnab K Ghosh, M.D., M.Sc., M.A., Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and internist whose work focuses on climate change, health, and health equity was announced as one of seven NIH Climate and Health Scholars. Dr. Ghosh is being hosted by the National Institutes on Aging.
NIH Climate and Health Scholars is part of an NIH-wide effort to reduce health threats from climate change across the lifespan and build health resilience in individuals, communities, and nations around the world, especially among those at highest risk. The program is designed to bring outside expertise into the NIH to assist in the development and promotion of the NIH’s Climate Change and Health Initiative Strategic Framework. This role will provide Dr. Ghosh with the opportunity to work with staff across NIH to share knowledge and help build capacity for conducting climate-related and health research.
Dr. Ghosh’s research program focuses on climate change and health, and development of interventions to protect vulnerable populations against climate-amplified threats. His work is supported by the NIH, NSF, Environmental Defense Fund, and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. In his time already as an NIH Climate and Health Scholar, Dr. Ghosh has led the development of a new webinar series that aims to help researchers, program officers, and other researcher administrators the scientific skills to promote translational science into climate and health.
Dr. Ghosh was a KL2 scholar at the Weill Cornell Tri-institutional Clinical and Translational Science Center from July 2019 to June 2021. His time undertaking the KL2 program during the COVID-19 pandemic allowed Dr. Ghosh to develop the necessary methodological skills to understand the effects of climate change on health using spatiotemporal modeling. The KL2 program supports the career development of investigators who have made a commitment to conduct either patient-oriented or translational research.
