Caleb Dresser

Dr. Caleb Dresser is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He serves as Director of Healthcare Solutions at the Harvard Chan Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), serves as Assistant Director of the Climate & Human Health Fellowship, and is on the faculty of the Fellowship in Disaster Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Faculty of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is also affiliated with Harvard University Center for the Environment and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard.

His 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.