Bio: Emma is a PhD Candidate in Environment and Resources in the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University. She is a NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a Stanford EDGE Fellow, and a Stanford Data Science Scholar. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked as a Research Analyst at the Global Policy Lab, where she was focused on identifying land-based sources of nonpoint source water pollution in national-scale river systems in New Zealand and the US Mississippi River Basin. Emma holds a MPH in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University and a BA in Behavioral Neuroscience from Colgate University.

Research: Emma is interested in exploring how we can promote the health of people and the environment in a changing world. Her research aims to measure the impacts of large-scale environmental change on human health as a way to inform environmental management and public health interventions. Her recent research topics range from measuring how tropical cyclones exacerbate infectious diseases like dengue, to quantifying the impact of agricultural intensification on infant health, and characterizing the chemicals in wildfire smoke and corresponding exposure risk in the US.

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