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Kari C Nadeau, M.D., Ph.D.

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Dr. Kari Nadeau is the Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health and John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies. She practices Allergy, Asthma, Immunology in children and adults. She has published over 400+ papers, many in the field of climate change and health. Dr. Nadeau, with a team of individuals and patients and families, has been able to help major progress and impact in the clinical fields of immunology, infection, asthma and allergy. Dr. Nadeau is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the U.S. EPA Children's Health Protection Committee.

For more than 30 years, she has devoted herself to understanding how environmental and genetic factors affect the risk of developing allergies and asthma, especially wildfire-induced air pollution. Her laboratory has been studying air pollution and wildfire effects on children and adults, including wildland firefighters. Many of the health issues involving individuals and the public are increasing because of global warming, sustainability practices, and extreme weather conditions. She oversees a team working on air pollution and wildfire research along with a multidisciplinary group of community leaders, firefighters, engineers, scientists, lawyers, and policy makers. Dr. Nadeau was appointed as a member of the U.S. Federal Wildfire Commission in 2022.

Dr. Nadeau works with other organizations and institutes across the world. She is working with the WHO on a scoping review and report for health ministers and policy makers on wildland fires: how to mitigate, adapt, and follow UN SDG's to create resiliency and co-benefits in communities, especially LMICs.

She also launched four biotech companies, and founded the Climate Change and Health Equity Task Force and started the Sustainability Health Seed Grant initiative and Climate Change and Health Fellowship program at Stanford. She also developed climate change and health courses at Stanford.
She also has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the U.S. EPA.

Dr. Nadeau earned her MD/PhD from Harvard Medical School in 1995, completing her doctoral work in biochemistry and immunology, followed by a pediatric internship and residency at Boston Children's Hospital (1995-1997). She moved to California for a fellowship in the Stanford-UCSF Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Program (2003-2006), joining the Stanford Medical School faculty as an instructor, followed by promotions to assistant professor (2008), associate professor (2011), and professor (2015).

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  1. P20TW013028 (NADEAU, KARI C.) Sep 23, 2024 - Aug 31, 2027
    NIH
    Center for Climate: Equitable and Accessible Research-based Testing for Health (C-EARTH)
    Role: Principal Investigator
  2. P01HL152953 (NADEAU, KARI C.) Aug 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2026
    NIH
    Air pollution disrupts Inflammasome Regulation in HEart And Lung Total Health (AIRHEALTH)
    Role: Principal Investigator
  3. R21ES033049 (NADEAU, KARI C.) Mar 16, 2021 - Feb 28, 2023
    NIH
    Interaction between genetic, lifestyle and environmental factors determining circulating angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 protein expression: implications for the severity of COVID-19 infection
    Role: Principal Investigator
  4. U01AI147462 (NADEAU, KARI C.) Aug 14, 2020 - May 31, 2027
    NIH
    SEAL (Stopping Atopic dermatitis and ALlergy) Study: Prevent allergy by enhancing the skin barrier
    Role: Principal Investigator
  5. R01ES032253 (NADEAU, KARI C.) Aug 1, 2020 - Jul 31, 2025
    NIH
    Immune Tolerance Dysfunction in Pregnancy due to Ambient Air Pollution Exposure
    Role: Principal Investigator

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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.