Ambarish Vaidyanathan

Dr. Ambarish (Rish) Vaidyanathan is a senior health scientist with the Climate and Health Program at National Center for Environmental Health, US CDC. His training and work experience cover a wide range of substantive areas, including

environmental engineering, exposure assessment, epidemiology, and data science. In addition, Dr. Vaidyanathan has several years of experience planning, coordinating, and implementing strategies to facilitate the conduct of environmental health surveillance and translational research projects. Specifically, he has been able to establish mutually‐beneficial collaborations with various academic institutions, state and local health departments, and federal agencies on efforts to identify and characterize populations vulnerable to air pollution and climate change. Of note, his work has been instrumental in supporting evidence‐based strategies for preventing adverse health impacts due to extreme weather and air pollution events, and help identify process constraints and barriers to cross‐sectoral collaboration for data sharing and using complex datasets and methods from a public health perspective. Dr. Vaidyanathan also holds an adjunct appointment in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.