Jess’s project focuses on assessing the impacts of climate change on rural communities in Mexico and analyzing policies and programs that strengthen community resilience to climate disasters in an effort to make tailored recommendations for programs that alleviate poverty and strengthen resilience. Jessica Schiff is a first year Master of Public Health student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is interested in the intersection between climate and health and wants to explore the direct and indirect impacts of global climate change on human health. Her current interests include the impacts of natural disasters and weather patterns on disease transmission, ecosystem transformation and health, climate change impacts in the Arctic, air and water pollution, and forced migration and conflict related to climate change. She works at the Harvard Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) studying natural gas exposure in the home. She has also been working with the Centre for Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN) researching the experience of humanitarian professionals responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. She is further investigating how the response to COVID-19 could provide learning experiences for other global policy challenges, such as climate change. In her free time, Jessica enjoys baking, traveling, and reading.
