Tess Wiskel is a Climate Change and Human Health Fellow at the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights and the Center for Climate Health and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) at Harvard University as well as an emergency medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. 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.
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 is currently enrolled in the Master of Public Health program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.