Dr Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD, is the Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health where she is also the John Rock Professor of Climate Science and Population Studies. Dr Nadeau is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and works at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). She also runs a laboratory and has published over 400+ papers, many in the field of immunology, and allergies and asthma, and climate change solutions. For more than 30 years, she has devoted herself to understanding how environmental and epigenetic factors affect the risk of developing immune dysfunction. Her wet lab laboratory has been studying exposomics and solutions-facing research with policy-oriented outcomes.
Dr Nadeau started 4 biotech companies, co-started a sustainability seed grant programme, and works with the WHO and UN on several projects in environmental and global health. She is the author of The End of Food Allergy and the book is available in eleven languages. Dr Nadeau earned her MD/PhD from Harvard Medical School in 1995, completing her doctoral work in biochemistry, followed by a pediatric residency, and fellowship in Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, and then joined the Stanford faculty where she was the Naddisy Professor of Medicine and
Pediatrics until 2022. She joined Harvard in January 2023. She is an adjunct Clinical Professor at Stanford in the Department of Pediatrics. She is part of the Harvard Medical Faculty Practice and practices Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology in children and adults at the BIDMC.