Patricia Fabian
Associate Professor of Environmental Health, School of Public Health Associate Director, Institute for Global Sustainability
M. Patricia Fabian, an Associate Director with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor of the Department of Environmental Health and faculty affiliate of the Hariri Institute for Computing and the Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health.
She conducts research and teaching focused on health and environmental health disparities in the built environment, and built the first systems science model linking housing, indoor air quality, energy use, and health.
She co-leads multiple studies on extreme heat and environmental justice communities (C-HEAT, B-COOL) and is co-PI in the Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast, a NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership Program. Her research group has published over 100 articles in the peer-reviewed literature. Dr. Fabian was on the Steering Committee for the Massachusetts 80×50 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Study and currently serves on the Massachusetts Climate Science Advisory Panel as well as national and local sustainability and climate justice working groups.
Her research interests include climate and health, indoor environmental quality & sustainability in schools and affordable housing, environmental health disparities, and transdisciplinary stakeholder and community collaborations to build resilience to extreme heat and other climate hazards in vulnerable communities.