Caroline Devadason

Research group: International Health Systems
 

Biography

Caroline Anitha Devadason is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge.  She is a public health professional by background with a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, and worked in climate change, sustainability and international development for several years, including conducting analyses for the World Health Organization (WHO) on a regional assessment of climate change and health in the Pacific islands, consulting for the World Bank Group on health, climate and the environment, developing policy reports for the Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health at the University of Oxford, and consulting for Harvard University on the Lancet Countdown on Climate Change US brief.
 
She has been a peer reviewer for the Climate Policy Journal and was involved in the USGCRP 5th National Climate Assessment, the premier climate assessment of the US government.
 
Prior to coming to the University of Cambridge, she was a humanitarian aid worker developing an environmental framework for the humanitarian sector and piloting it in Moldova and Ukraine for the Ukraine response.  Her current research at Cambridge is exploring the environmental sustainability of humanitarian health.