Sherilee Harper, MSc, PhD

Email

sherilee@ualberta.ca

Sherilee Harper is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Climate Change and Health in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta.  Her research investigates associations between weather, environment, and health equity in the context of climate change, and she collaborates with partners across sectors to prioritise climate-related health actions, planning, interventions, and research. She was a Lead Author on two United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports; served on the Gender Task Group for the IPCC; Lead Author on Health Canada's 2022 Climate Change and Health Assessment; and Co-chaired the Government of Canada's Health and Wellbeing Advisory Table for the National Adaptation Strategy. She is currently an IPCC Vice Chair (WGI).

Degrees
PhD, University of Guelph
MSc, University of Guelph

Keywords 

• climate change and health risks
• climate change and health adaptation
• community-led research; community-based, participatory research
• social and environmental epidemiology
• mixed (qualitative and quantitative) research methods

Research Service

• Vice Chair (WGI), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC)
• Lead Author on the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report (AR6-WG2)
• Gender Task Group for the IPCC