Outdoor Air Quality: Heat and Wildfires

Dr. Maeve MacMurdo is a specialist in occupational and environmental lung disease, and director of the Cleveland Clinic Occupational Lung Disease Clinic. She grew up in New Zealand, where she completed her medical education, before completing her residency in Internal Medicine at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland Oregon, and her subsequent fellowship and subspecialty training at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. MacMurdo is passionate about understanding how the environment impacts worker health, with a focus on the health of farmworkers. She has received funding from the NIH and EPA to evaluate the impacts of air pollution on lung health, and in collaboration with the American Thoracic Society, is working to develop guidelines for the evaluation and prevention of occupational exposure to air pollution, focusing on farmworker health.

Americares Associate Director of Climate and Disaster Resilience Nathaniel Matthews-Trigg, MPH, CEM, is part of a team that develops innovative global programming that prevents or addresses the health impacts of global extreme weather phenomena   Matthews-Trigg joined Americares in 2023 after several years of working in extreme weather and health research, and health care emergency management. Prior to joining Americares, he served as both an operational planner and exercise coordinator for Northwest Healthcare Response Network, the health care coalition for western Washington state. He supported the development and implementation of the World Health Organization’s Global Heat Health Information Network while interning for the World Health Organization’s and World Meteorological Organization and was a founding member of an organization to promote action on extreme weather for New Mexico health professionals. Matthews-Trigg is an affiliate instructor with the University of Washington’s Center for Health and the Global Environment.