Nina Brooks, PhD

Nina Brooks’s global health focus explores how climate change and air pollution threaten human health and well-being in the Global South. Her interests in global health equity align with the Center’s themes of empowering women, addressing social and environmental determinants of health, and developing technical solutions. Brooks’s research focuses on documenting the health impacts of air pollution—particularly in traditional, informal brick manufacturing in Bangladesh—while developing, testing, and evaluating interventions to reduce pollution and improve resilience in vulnerable populations. Her research aims to identify real-world mitigation and adaptation strategies and prioritizes gender as a cross-cutting theme.