About Dr. Augusta Williams

 
 

Augusta Williams, ScD, MPH is an Assistant Professor at SUNY Upstate Medical University in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She serves as the Assistant Director of the Central New York site of the New York State Children’s Environmental Health Network. At SUNY Upstate, she is one of the key figures involved in ramping up educational initiatives and learning opportunities for students, faculty, and staff on environmental health, climate change, and sustainability. Applied research experiences with students provide hands-on opportunities to engage in climate change or sustainability and health research questions targeted towards public health, occupational health and safety, and healthcare settings.

She previously served as a Presidential Management Fellow, working at the Occupational Health and Safety Administration on workplace heat safety initiatives. She earned her ScD in Environmental Health, specifically at the intersection of public health and climate change, from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2019, during which she was advised by Dr. Jack Spengler. She continued her post-doctoral training with the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment under the mentorship of former National Climate Advisor and former Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency Gina McCarthy. She received her MPH and a Certificate of Climate and Health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She earned her BS in biology and atmospheric sciences from Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

EDUCATION

  • ScD, Harvard University, T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2019)

  • MPH, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health (2015)

  • BS, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (2013)

COURSES TAUGHT

  • MPHP 603: Principles of Environmental Health

  • MPHP 6413: The Impacts of the Climate Crisis on Public Health and Clinical Medicine

  • MPHP 655: Advanced Epidemiology (as needed)

  • Independent Study in Research and Writing for Public Health

WORKING ACROSS CENTRAL NY

  • Greater Syracuse Area

  • North Country

  • Finger Lakes

 
 

MEET RELISH

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • International Society of Environmental Epidemiology

  • American Public Health Association

  • New York State Rural Health Association

  • American Industrial Hygiene Association (former)

  • International Society of Exposure Science (former)

  • American Meteorological Society (former)

  • American Geophysical Union (former)