George Luber
George Luber is a medical anthropologist and the associate director for climate change in the Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects at the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Luber has served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer and staff epidemiologist at the National Center for Environmental Health. His research interests in anthropology and environmental health are broad. They include: the health impacts of environmental change and biodiversity loss; harmful algal blooms; the health effects of climate change; and the use of anthropological (mixed) methodology to understanding adaptation options to climate change. Most recently, his work has focused on the epidemiology and prevention of heat-related illness and death, the application of remote sensing techniques to modeling vulnerability to heat stress in urban environments, and the use of community-based participatory research in climate change adaptation planning.
In addition to heading the Climate Change Program at CDC, Luber is a co-chair of the Climate Change and Human Health Interagency Workgroup at the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a member of the Federal Advisory Committee (ex-officio) for the U.S. National Climate Assessment, and a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report.
