Rebecca Saari

Rebecca Saari is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Global Change, Atmosphere, and Health, and an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Her research advances the field of health impact assessment by using coupled human-natural systems (CHANS) models to identify policies – for mitigation and adaptation – that robustly and equitably protect health from air pollution under a changing climate. Her work appears in top journals like Nature Climate Change and the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Dr. Saari has been invited by the World Health Organization, Health Canada, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy to set guidelines for climate impacts research. Her findings have been requested by White House staff, quoted by the head of the USEPA in the press (including CBC, NBC, and the New York Times), cited in over 80 policy documents, and used to support major climate legislation in U.S. federal court.