Tess Wiskel, MD, MPH

Tess Wiskel is an emergency medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and faculty at Harvard Medical School. She is also a Burke Global Health Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute. Her focus is on understanding and addressing the health impacts of climate change, particularly extreme weather events, in at-risk patient populations and to evaluate long term effects including migration of communities.

Dr. Wiskel completed a Climate and Human Health Fellowship jointly between Harvard’s Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Tess received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and her medical degree from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. She completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at Brown University and subsequently the Master of Public Health program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.