Caleb Dresser

Dr. Caleb Dresser is a practicing emergency physician, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He serves as Assistant Director of the Climate & Human Health Fellowship and is on faculty with the Fellowship in Disaster Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; the Harvard Chan Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE); and the Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Dr Dresser’s academic work focuses on understanding and addressing the health impacts of climate change, including health needs during and after climate-related disasters, with particular attention to heat waves, tropical cyclones, and wildfire. He serves as the Harvard principal investigator for projects developing climate resilience toolkits and clinician heat alerts for frontline clinics serving patients impacted by climate change.