Meet our Climate Change Committee Co-Chairs:

Daniel Smith
Daniel J. Smith, PhD, RN, CNE is a doctorally prepared nurse and the Weingarten Endowed Assistant Professors at Villanova University’s M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing. During my PhD Studies, I was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar, Cohort 5. My overarching research interest lies at the intersection of understanding the effects of climate change on the health outcomes of disenfranchised populations and how we can build climate resilience and adaptation skills in communities & health systems. In addition to my scholarship, I have worked clinical with multiple refugee and immigrant populations in the primary care setting. I am excited to be the co-chair of ANHE’s climate change committee and hope to bring my skills to advance the mission of the committee and the organization.

Kathy Simmonds
Kathy Simmonds, PhD, MPH, WHNP-BC is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Women’s Health/Gender-Related Nurse Practitioner Track in the School of Nursing at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. Her clinical work and research has focused on reproductive health, and more recently has expanded to include climate change and health. She is particularly interested in intersections between climate justice and reproductive justice, and welcomes collaboration with others also interested in this area. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the MGH Institute’s Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health. She lives with her husband and son on Peaks Island in the beautiful Casco Bay of Maine.