We’re a group of nonpartisan climate scientists and mothers, working to give our children the planet they deserve.

Lisa Patel is the Executive Director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine. She is a national expert on how climate change is affecting children’s health, particularly as it relates to air pollution and wildfires.

She is a former Presidential Management Fellow for the Environmental Protection Agency where she coordinated the US Government’s efforts on clean air and safe drinking water projects in South Asia in collaboration with the World Health Organization, and received the Trudy A. Specinar Award for her work. She is a member of the Executive Committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change, and a faculty mentor for Stanford Climate and Health where she mentors projects related to climate-resilient schools, environmental justice, sustainable healthcare, and medical education curriculum reform. She has published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the New York Times, the LA Times, Bloomberg News, and multiple state and local outlets. She is interviewed regularly for her expertise  for major national media outlets like the Washington Post, US News and World Report, and CNN, among others.

Lisa received her Master’s in Environmental Sciences from the Yale School of the Environment, her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and completed her training in pediatrics at UCSF.