“As a fellow funded by the Environmental Justice and Climate Just Cities Network at the Columbia Climate School, I was part of the NPCC’s Health Working Group, co-led by Janice Barnes, the founder of Climate Adaptation Partners, and Thomas Matte, senior lecturer at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. In this position, I had the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with experts working in the intersections of climate science and public health, epidemiology, planning, adaptation, spatial demography, water resources, mapping, heat and energy justice…“