Kristie Ebi

Kristie L. Ebi is an American epidemiologist whose primary focus is the impact of global warming on human health.^[1] She is a professor of Global Health and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.^[1]

Ebi is the founder and former director (2014-2019) of the Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) at the University of Washington School of Public Health.^[2]

Ebi graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry in 1972.^[3] In 1976, she completed a Master of Science in toxicology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[3] She then went to the University of Michigan where she got a Master of Public Health (1983) and PhD (1985) in epidemiology.^[3] She then spent two years doing postgraduate research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.^[1][4]

Ebi's research focuses on the health risks of climate variability and climate change, including extreme events, heat stress, food safety und vector-borne disease, and adaptation strategies to address these risks in environments with multiple stress factors.^[1][4]

Ebi was a lead author of the 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).^[5][6] Ebi's chapter documents the impacts that 1.5°C of global warming would have on natural and human systems. In public debate on the climate crisis, Ebi compared the report to a doctor with a serious diagnosis for their patient: "If you have cancer, you need the doctor to tell you how serious your cancer is and what your options are."^[7]

At TED 2019, Ebi spoke about the effects of increased carbon dioxide on the nutritional content of food.^[8][9][10]

Ebi was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2023.^[11]

Scholia has a profile for Kristie L. Ebi (Q58039850).

• Ebi, Kristie L.; Semenza, Jan C. (2008). "Community-Based Adaptation to the Health Impacts of Climate Change". American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 35 (5): 501–507. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2008.08.018. PMID 18929976.
• O'Neill, Brian C.; Kriegler, Elmar; Ebi, Kristie L.; Kemp-Benedict, Eric; Riahi, Keywan; Rothman, Dale S.; Van Ruijven, Bas J.; Van Vuuren, Detlef P.; Birkmann, Joern; Kok, Kasper; Levy, Marc; Solecki, William (2017). "The roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century". Global Environmental Change. 42: 169–180. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.01.004. hdl:1874/347567.
• Zhu, Chunwu; Kobayashi, Kazuhiko; Loladze, Irakli; Zhu, Jianguo; Jiang, Qian; Xu, Xi; Liu, Gang; Seneweera, Saman; Ebi, Kristie L.; Drewnowski, Adam; Fukagawa, Naomi K.; Ziska, Lewis H. (2018). "Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels this century will alter the protein, micronutrients, and vitamin content of rice grains with potential health consequences for the poorest rice-dependent countries". Science Advances. 4 (5): eaaq1012. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.1012Z. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaq1012. PMC 5966189. PMID 29806023.