Preterm and Early-Term Birth, Heat Waves, and Our Changing Climate.
Dresser C, Mahalingaiah S, Nadeau KC.
JAMA Netw Open. 2024 May 01. 7(5):e2412026. PMID: 38787564
Caleb Dresser is Assistant Director of the Fellowship in Climate and Human Health, Climate MD Program Lead at Harvard C-CHANGE, an Emergency Medicine Attending at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School.
He is affiliated with the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and CrisisReady. His research focuses on understanding the public health and healthcare implications of climate-related extreme weather events, and he is actively involved in efforts to educate healthcare workers, policymakers, and the general public about the value of action to protect human health in the context of the ongoing climate crisis.
Caleb was the inaugural Fellow in Climate and Human Health in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (2019 to 2021) and is a graduate of the Master of Public Health program at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his medical education at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and his residency in Emergency Medicine through the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
MPH, 05/2021, Public Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
BS, 06/2009, Biology & Society
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
MD, 06/2016, Medicine
Univ. Massachusetts Medical Sch., Worcester, MA
06/2019, Emergency Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Ctr. / HAEMR, Boston, MA
Jane Matlaw Environmental Champion
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Teaching Attending Award
Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dresser C, Mahalingaiah S, Nadeau KC.
JAMA Netw Open. 2024 May 01. 7(5):e2412026. PMID: 38787564
James K. Sullivan, Haley Campbell, Caleb Dresser, Ann-Christine Duhaime, Marc Futernick, Ilyssa Gordon, Kimberly Humphrey, Eva Rawlings Parker, Lisa Patel, Emily Senay, Cecilia Sorensen, Marcalee Alexander .
Proceedings from the Inaugural Climate and Health Conference, October 21-22, 2023. 2024.
Shakirah N. Ssebyala , Timothy M. Kintu, David J. Muganzi, Caleb Dresser, Michelle R. Demetres, Yuan Lai, Kobusingye Mercy, Chenyu Li, Fei Wang, Soko Setoguchi, Leo Anthony Celi, Arnab K. Ghosh.
Use of machine learning tools to predict health risks from climate-sensitive extreme weather events: A scoping review. 2024.
Dresser C, Johns Z, Palardy A, McKINNON S, Breakey S, Ros AMV, Nicholas PK.
Milbank Q. 2024 Jun. 102(2):302-324. PMID: 38228577
Burlotos A, Dresser C, Shandas V. .
Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2023. e522(17):1-4.
Sorensen C, Dresser C, Balakumar A, Wheat S, Yates E, Healy JP, Brown C, Butala N, Lehmann EY, Malina G, Redelmeier RJ, Hess JJ, Salas RN.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2023 09. 42(9):1289-1297. PMID: 37669497
Dresser C, Rublee C, Giudice C, Sorenson C.
Ann Emerg Med. 2023 08. 82(2):237-238. PMID: 37479405
Victor C. Agbafe Blake N. Shultz Caleb Dresser Kyle Whyte.
Justice40: An Opportunity To Build Health Equity. 2023.
Caleb Dresser, Caitlin Rublee, Catharina Giudice, Cecilia Sorenson .
Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2023. 82(2):237-238.
William Hamilton, Calae Philippe, James Hospedales, Caleb Dresser, Bridgette Colebrooke, Nicola Hamacher, Kimberly Humphrey, Cecilia Sorensen.
Dialogues in Health. 2023. 3.
As climate change continues to escalate, protecting maternal and infant health must be a priority, according to experts from Harvard Chan School.
Members of the Harvard community who attended COP28—the two-week international climate summit held in late 2023 in Dubai—gathered January 30 to discuss key takeaways, lessons learned, and next steps in the climate and health arena.
With heat waves taking an increasingly devastating toll, particularly on vulnerable communities, health care providers need resources to help keep people safe, according to an opinion piece co-authored by Harvard Chan C-CHANGE's Caleb Dresser.
Eighty-five high school students from the U.S. and beyond learned about climate change from a variety of perspectives—and got ideas on how to tackle the climate crisis in their own communities and beyond—at an annual youth summit held…
With millions of Americans facing day after day of temperatures well above 100 degrees, experts from Harvard Chan C-CHANGE are speaking out about ways to mitigate the dangerous health effects of extreme heat.