Dr. Lisa M. Thompson, PhD, MS, RN, FNP, FAAN, is a tenured Professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. The focus of her research is to evaluate effective behavioral change interventions to reduce maternal and infant exposures to household air pollution from the use of solid cooking fuels in low-resource countries. For the past 20 years, she has worked on intervention trials related to household air pollution, starting as a graduate student on a landmark study, the first randomized stove intervention study on infant pneumonia in Guatemala (RESPIRE trial), and currently works on the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) stove intervention trial in Guatemala, Peru, Rwanda, and India. She is the principal investigator of a village-level cluster randomized trial in rural Guatemala (Ecolectivos). This is an implementation science study to develop and evaluate community-level interventions that aim to reduce household burning of plastic waste. She was inducted into the 2021 Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame and received the 2023 Episteme Laureate award from Sigma.

For over a decade Crystal Loucel has served as a bilingual and bicultural Public Health Nurse (PHN) within the San Francisco Bay Area. She obtained her Master of Science from UCSF’s School of Nursing and a Master in Public Health from Loma Linda University. Since 2019, Crystal has worked as a Certified Diabetes Care & Education Specialist (CDCES) and a Health & Wellness Nurse Coach (HWNC-BC). In her current role, she works as a Research Nurse for a study in Type 1 Diabetes and co-transplantation of pancreas cells for improved insulin production. She currently serves on the National Board of Directors of NAHN and Co-Chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Committee. In 2023, she was awarded year-long fellowships through the Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy Environment as well as an Emerging Diversity Leaders Fellow with AcademyHealth.

Zach Williams, MPH brings passion and expertise to his role as the Associate Director of the Environment & Health program with the Physicians for Social Responsibility. He has a background in climate & health education, social services for marginalized youth, project management, and international emergency response. Zach received both his Bachelor of Science in Applied Psychology and his Master of Public Health from New York University. Using both his passion for the environment and commitment to justice, Zach has educated high school students, seasoned health professionals, and elected officials alike about the human health effects of climate change. His current work focuses on supporting building decarbonization policies nationwide in the interest of public health and calling out the fossil fuel industry as the primary culprit behind a wide range of health impacts due to fossil fuel pollution.

Vi Thuy Nguyen, MD, FAAP is a Fellow of Environmental Health as part of the American Academy of Pediatrics and serves as Co-Chair of San Diego’s AAP Climate Change and Health Committee, Chair of AAP California State Government Affairs Expert Committee on Environmental Health and Climate Change. She is Co-Founder of San Diego Pediatricians for Clean Air, a coalition of concerned pediatricians who advocate for pediatric asthmatic patients. She also now serves as Co-Chair of the Public Health Advisory Council for Climate Actions Campaign in San Diego. She originally earned her MD at Harvard Medical School and trained in general pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She completed her 5-year-term as Assistant Chief of Pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente San Diego. In her professional life, she managed over 90 outpatient general pediatricians and was responsible for Pediatric Quality measures with special emphasis on pediatric asthma health and vaccine measures.

After a numerically successful but personally grueling time in middle management and experiencing burn-out, Vi has pivoted her extra-curricular physician time to being an advocate for physician wellness and joy and climate work. She is a proud trained Climate Reality Leader and Co-Lead of Kaiser San Diego’s Sustainability/Green Team. She actively blogs and Instagrams as an alternate eco-avatar plogger (jogger and beach cleaner) in the Pacific Beach area. She is currently laser focused on decarbonization and building electrification.  She was able to successful orchestrate H3SD San Diego’s Heat and Human Health Summit.