Dr. Kristie L. Ebi is an independent consultant based in Alexandria, VA, who has worked in the field of global climate change for more than ten years. Her research focuses on potential impacts of climate variability and change, including impacts associated with extreme events, thermal stress, food-borne diseases, and vector-borne diseases, and on the design of adaptation response options to reduce current and projected future negative impacts. She has worked at the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health in Rome, Italy, the Electric Power Research Institute, and Exponent, Inc. She is a Lead Author for the Human Health chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report. She was a Convening Lead Author on the WHO publication: Methods of Assessing Human Health Vulnerability and Public Health Adaptation to Climate Change, and she was a Lead Author in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. Dr. Ebi has more than 25 years of multidisciplinary experience in environmental issues, and has more than 75 publications. Dr. Ebi’s scientific training includes a M.S. in toxicology from MIT and a Ph.D. and MPH in epidemiology from the University of Michigan, and two years of postgraduate research in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.