University College London, London

Clare Heaviside is an Associate Professor in Climate Change, Cities and Health in the Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering at UCL. Her research is multi-disciplinary, covering climate change, air pollution, urban climate modelling, and associations with health. Clare is interested in how environmental changes affect health, e.g., direct heat-related impacts associated with the urban heat island, and how we might reduce some of these health impacts through adaptation measures, particularly in urban areas. Clare has an MSc in meteorology from University of Reading, and a PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics from Imperial College London. After her PhD, she worked in the public health sector for a decade, becoming head of Climate Change at Public Health England in 2017, before joining University of Oxford, later UCL, as a NERC Independent Research Fellow. Clare is PI of the Wellcome HEROIC (Health and Economic impacts of Reducing Overheating In Cities) project.