Danielle Eiseman, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of the Cornell Health Impacts Core within the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health at Cornell University. Dr. Eiseman specializes in novel approaches to public engagement, climate change and public health risk communication, and public policy on climate and health. Recent projects include storytelling on flood experience, extreme heat preparedness and planning, using ice cream to promote community discussions on climate change, and risk and crisis communication training for state and local partners.
Dr. Eiseman has extensive experience working with communities and policymakers around the world on assessing needs, challenges, and right-fit solutions to community preparedness to climate impacts (forest conservation, best management practices for farmers, drought, flooding, extreme heat, and air quality). She has presented at the UNFCCC COP multiple times, worked with the Scottish government and the Dominican Republic on climate change policy, and is co-author of the book “Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need.”