Kevin Cromar Speaks at Conferences

Director of Health, Environment, and Policy, Kevin Cromar, has been leading a series of conversations with medical professional societies to strengthen the role of health research in shaping U.S. climate policy. He has delivered talks at the American Psychological Association, the American Thoracic Society’s international conference, and the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health (MSCCH), which brings together over 50 national medical societies, representing more than 700,000 health professionals.

These talks have focused on how research documenting the health impacts of climate change can be more effectively used in federal decisionmaking. Cromar is working with MSCCH and other societies to identify key climate-sensitive health endpoints, establish global baseline estimates, develop justifiable damage functions with uncertainty bounds, and identify valuation metrics that capture the economic costs of these health outcomes. This effort is part of a broader initiative led by NYU to improve how health impacts are integrated into estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases and, more broadly, into U.S. climate benefit-cost analyses.