National Public Health Week Seminar Series
Speakers and Topics

Janet Gamble, Ph.D.

Bio
Dr. Gamble is the Convening Lead Author for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program’s (CCSP) Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.6:  Analyses of the Impacts of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems.  At the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, she is engaged in research and assessment topics related to the impacts of global change on human health, human settlements and human well-being, including:  Epidemiological analyses of the relationship of extreme temperature and violent behavior and implications for climate change; analyses of health effects associated with weather extremes, including heat/cold morbidity impacts in children; effects of inclement weather on accidents and injuries; impacts of climate change on vector and water borne disease; and impacts of climate change on aeroallergens and on air pollution-related morbidity and mortality.  From 1999-2005, Dr. Gamble served as the Co-Chair of the Human Contributions and Responses Interagency Working Group at the CCSP.  In that capacity, she collaborated with colleagues in NOAA, NASA, NSF, and EPRI to fund cooperative agreements addressing issues related to climate change and human health.  Dr. Gamble completed her studies at the University of Texas at Dallas [Ph.D. in Political Economy (1997)].  She was a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency STAR Doctoral Fellow while at UT Dallas where she taught Health Economics and Econometrics.  She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Tulane University Medical School (1997-1998) where she taught environmental policy and biostatistics.  Subsequently she joined EPA as a post-doctoral fellow in the Global Change Research Program (1998-1999) where she remains today.

Affiliation:
Global Change Research Program,
National Center for Environmental Assessment
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Contact Information:
USEPA
1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Mailcode 8601P
Washington, DC 20460
703-347-8617
gamble.janet@epa.gov