Jeremy Hess
Department of Emergency Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor
Adjunct or Visiting, Environmental Health
I am a practicing emergency medicine physician and medical epidemiologist trained in global environmental health. I currently am a Professor at the University of Washington. My clinical research interests include the effects of heat, health systems operations, health system preparedness and energy use, and extreme weather events. My public health research interests include the health effects of climate change, particularly adaptation activities for disasters, global health impacts, and other aspects of the public health response; and energy use and environmental sustainability in health care delivery. I serve as the Senior Medical Advisor to the Climate and Health Program at CDC's National Center for Environmental Health. In recent years I have served as a Lead Author on the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) and as a Lead Author on the current US National Climate Assessment. In 2010 I was the recipient of a Presidential GreenGov award for the report "A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change."
M.D., Emory University School of Medicine, 2003
M.P.H., Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, 2003
Areas of Interest
- Advocacy
- Climate and Health
- Emergency Preparedness
- Global Health
- Public Health Policy
- Public Health Preparedness and Response
Education
- MD 2003, Emory University
- MPH 2003, Emory University
- Residency, Emergency Medicine 2006, Emory University
Affiliations & Activities
Joint appointment Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Senior Medical Advisor, Climate and Health Program, Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications
- Gingold DB, Strickland MJ, Hess JJ, 2014, Ciguatera fish poisoning and climate change: analysis of national poison center data in the United States 2001-2011, Environmental Health Perspectives, 122, 580-586
- Hodges M, Belle J, Carlton E, Liang S, Li H, Luo W, Freeman M, Liu Y, Gao Y, Hess J, Remais J, 2014, Delays reducing waterborne and water-related infectious diseases in China under climate change, Nature Climate Change, 4, 1109-1115
- Azhar GS, Mavalankar D, Nori-Sarma A, Rajiva A, Dutta P, Sheffield P, Knowlton K, Hess JJ, 2014, Heat-related mortality in India: Excess all-cause mortality associated with the 2010 Ahmedabad heat wave, PLOS One, 9, e91831
- Remais JV, Hess JJ, Ebi K, Markandya A, Balbus J, Wilkinson P, Haines A, Chalabi Z, 2014, Methodological issues in estimating the public health effects of greenhouse-gas emission reduction strategies: addressing parametric, model, and valuation challenges, Environmental Health Perspectives, 122, 447-455
- Hess JJ, Saha S, Luber G, 2014, Summertime Heat Illness in US Emergency Departments from 2006 through 2010: Analysis of a Nationally Representative Sample, Environmental Health Perspectives, 122, 1209-1215
- Darrow L, Hess J, Rogers C, Tolbert P, Klein M, Sarnat S. , 2012, Ambient pollen concentrations and emergency department visits for asthma and wheeze, J All Clin Imm, 130, 630-638
- Lavell A, Oppenheimer M, Diop S, Hess J, Lempert R, Li J, Muir-Wood R, Myeong S. , 2012, Climate Change: New Dimensions in Disaster Risk, Exposure, Vulnerability, and Resilience., Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). , ,
- Gamble J, Hess JJ., 2012, Temperature and Violent Crime in Dallas, Texas: Observed Relationships and Possible Implications of Climate Change. , Western J Emerg Med, 13, 239-46
- Bush KF, Luber G, Kotha SR, Dhaliwal RS, Kapil V, Pascual M, Brown DG, Frumkin H, Dhiman RC, Hess J, Wilson ML, Balakrishnan K, Eisenberg J, Kaur T, Rood R, Batterman S, Joseph A, Gronlund CJ, Agrawal A, Hu H. , 2011, Impacts of Climate Change on Public Health in India: Future Research Directions. , Environmental Health Perspectives, doi:10.1289/ehp.1003000,
- Hess JJ, McDowel JZ, Luber G, 2011, Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Public Health Practice: Using Adaptive Management to Increase Adaptive Capacity and Build Resilience, Environmental Health Perspectives, 10.1289/ehp.1103515,
- Hess J, Greenberg LA, 2011, Liquid Fuel Use in a Large, Dynamically-Deployed, Hospital-Based Emergency Medical Services System. , Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 26, 1-5
- Hess JJ, Bednarz D, Bae JY, Pierce J, 2011, Petroleum and Health Care: Evaluating and Managing Health Care's Vulnerability to Petroleum Supply Shifts, American Journal of Public Health, 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300233,
- Portier CJ, Thigpen Tart K, Carter SR, Dilworth CH, Grambsch AE, Gohlke J, Hess J, Howard SN, Luber G, Lutz JT, Maslak T, Prudent N, Radtke M, Rosenthal JP, Rowles T, Sandifer PA, Scheraga J, Schramm PJ, Strickman D, Trtanj JM, Whung P-Y., 2010, A Human Health Perspective On Climate Change: A Report Outlining the Research Needs on the Human Health Effects of Climate Change. , Environmental Health Perspectives, doi:10.1289/ehp.1002272 ,
- Stone B, Hess J, Frumkin H, 2010, Urban Form and Extreme Heat Events: Are Sprawling Cities more Vulnerable to Climate Change than Compact Cities?, Environmental Health Perspectives, doi: 10.1289/ehp.0901879,
- Hess J, Heilpern KL, Davis TE, Frumkin H, 2009, Climate Change and Emergency Medicine: Impacts and Opportunities, Academic Emergency Medicine, 16, 782-94
- St Louis M, Hess J, 2008, Climate Change and Global Health, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35, 527-538
- Frumkin H, Hess J, Luber G, Malilay J, McGeehin M, 2008, The public health response to climate change, American Journal of Public Health, 98, 435-445
- Frumkin H, Hess J, Vindigni S, 2007, Peak Petroleum and Public Health, JAMA, 298, 1688-1690