About HEAT

Led by early career researchers and community partners in each city with robust support from senior researchers, our team holds a wide range of expertise from sociology and geography to epidemiology and engineering, and an excellent track record of community-based research to inform policy – amounting to a unique collective expertise and set of tools for equity-driven research.

Researchers

Dr. Liv Yoon (Principal Investigator)

Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
Dr. Mohammed Rafi Arefin (Lead Co-PI)

Assistant Professor (Environmental Justice and Social Change) in the Department of Geography at UBC.
Dr. Sarah Koch (Lead Co-PI)

Assistant Professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland and Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) in Spain.
Dr. Diana Hernández (Lead Co-PI)

Associate Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
Dr. Margarita Triguero-Mas

Associated researcher (Assistant Professor level) at ISGlobal in Barcelona, Spain, a senior researcher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).
Dr. Robbie Parks

Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Dr. Geraldine Pratt

Professor of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Care Economies and Global Labour at UBC.
Naomi Klein

Associate Professor of Climate Justice at UBC, co-director of the UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice, and award-winning author.
Dr. Jeff Masuda

Professor at University of Victoria’s School of Public Health & Social Policy and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Dr. Felipe Antequera

Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
Mariona Font

Research Technician at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) in Spain.

Staff & Area-Specific Experts

Dr. Kendra Jewell

Project Manager, Vancouver
Farzana Khan

Project Manager, NYC
Ryan Kulka

Senior Environmental Advisor, Health Canada
Michael Gutland

Assistant Professor, University College London
Gary Mallach

Air Health Effects Research Section Head, Health Canada
Liu Sun

Scientific Evaluator, Health Canada
Elena Gimeno

Project Manager at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) in Spain.
Katie Lane

Senior Environmental Epidemiologist, NYC DOHMH
Laura Bozzi

Senior Director of Environmental Health Policy, NYC DOHMH