Tracey Holloway, atmospheric idiosyncratic and prof successful the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, has been elected a subordinate of the National Academy of Medicine successful designation of her enactment successful initiatives to link clime with health.
Holloway, the Jeff Rudd and Jeanne Bissell Professor of Energy Analysis and Policy, is among 100 caller members announced this week. They were elected by the Academy’s existent members successful acknowledgment of large contributions to the advancement of the aesculapian sciences, wellness care, and nationalist health.
Tracey Holloway Courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy
“This bonzer people of caller members is comprised of exceptional scholars and leaders who person been astatine the forefront of responding to superior nationalist wellness challenges, combatting societal inequities, and achieving innovative discoveries,” said National Academy of Medicine President Victor J. Dzau. “Their expertise volition beryllium captious to informing the aboriginal of wellness and medicine for the payment of america all. I americium genuinely honored to invited these esteemed individuals to the National Academy of Medicine.”
At slightest one-quarter of NAM’s recently elected members are selected from fields extracurricular the wellness professions —fields similar law, engineering, societal sciences and the humanities.
Holloway is typical of that diverseness of talent, with much than 20 years of probe astatine the intersection of aerial quality, energy, climate, and nationalist health. Her laboratory uses accusation from satellites and crushed sensors to exemplary aerial prime and its effects connected nationalist health, and applies their models to recognize the wellness benefits of changes successful vigor accumulation and policy.
Since 2012, Holloway has held roles with NASA groups organizing researchers astir that agency’s outer information connected atmospheric contaminants. In 2016, she became person of NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, which helps nationalist agencies marque usage of NASA’s wealthiness of aerial prime information to lick real-world nationalist wellness problems.
Her enactment has been supported by the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health, among others.
Holloway is besides a co-founder and the archetypal president of the Earth Science Women’s Network, which works to expanding diverseness crossed the geosciences — wherever women and radical of colour are underrepresented among scientists — and started ESWN’s yearly Science-A-Thon societal media celebration. She is simply a Science Mom, and was the first-ever recipient of the MIT C3E (Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Awards) grant successful Education and Mentoring, a Stanford University Leopold Leadership Fellow, an American Association for the Advancement of Science Leshner Leadership Fellow, and was awarded the 2018 UW–Madison Undergraduate Research Student Mentoring Award.
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