Historian of science and public health

Colleen Lanier-Christensen is a Burke Climate and Health Fellow with the Harvard Global Health Institute and Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Harvard University’s Department of the History of Science, where she earned her PhD. She works at the intersection of history of science and public health, focusing on the governance of environmental and health risks, including air pollution, chemical products, and medical technologies. Colleen also holds an MPH from the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, with a certificate in Environmental Health Policy.

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