Doctoral Candidate in Public Health, Griffith University Coming from a background in applied science I shifted towards public health and epidemiology before starting my PhD at Griffith in 2021. I'm interested in vulnerable populations, so I was excited to join a Griffith Climate Action project in targeting the health effects of extreme heat in older adults. Since joining, we have been successful in seeking support from Wellcome which has expanded the size of the team and scope of the project considerably.
PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland Stacey is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, and a global health and development professional with a passion for improving the lives of those impacted by disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies. Stacey's PhD examines how landmines and other explosive remnants of war impact health in civilian populations globally. This research provides the first global epidemiological analysis of casualties of landmines and explosive remnants of war. She has international experience working across humanitarian and disaster projects with non-for-profits and in academia. Stacey has a keen interest in evidence-based policy, research and stakeholder engagement. Her experience draws on her background as a paramedic, and engages with the global and planetary health impacts of disasters and humanitarian emergencies.
Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee I use elemental and isotopic tracers, together with petrology and mineralogy, to study the Earth’s mantle and the early Solar System.
Research Scholar in Energy Policy, Columbia University Sagatom Saha is an Adjunct Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA. He is an expert on the geopolitics of the global energy transition and U.S. competitiveness in clean energy technologies. Sagatom previously worked on cleantech competitiveness at the International Trade Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce and served as a special advisor in the Office of the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. In this role, he was chief of staff to Secretary Kerry’s clean energy and innovation team and led on cleantech competitiveness, nuclear energy, industrial decarbonization, Ukraine and Eastern Europe, and India. Sagatom was also a Fulbright researcher in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he advised the Ukrainian Parliament and cabinet ministries on strategies to advance energy reform. Sagatom previously helped direct the Council on Foreign Relations’ Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, managing its geopolitics portfolio.
Sonal Choudhary, MD is a dermatology trained Dermatopathologist, who joined the Department of Dermatology in 2015 upon completion of her Dermatopathology Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Choudhary received her undergraduate degree and medical degree from Vardhman Mahavir Medical College in New Delhi India. She completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Miami, where she remained to complete her Preliminary Internship in Internal Medicine, as well as her Residency Program in Dermatology.
In 26 years at the College of Charleston, Scott Peeples has taught a wide array of courses, with topics ranging from Gothicism to 19th-century American poetry to Bob Dylan. He has published extensively on Edgar Allan Poe and other 19th-century writers, most recently as author of The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City and as co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe. His essays have appeared in a wide range of academic and popular publications, including J19, Southern Cultures, Arizona Quarterly, Salon, and The Millions. Dr. Peeples previously served as Chair of the English Department from 2012 to 2017. He is a past president of the Poe Studies Association and the Southeastern American Studies Association.
