Frederica P. Perera

Frederica P. Perera is a special research scientist and professor emerita of environmental health sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and the founder of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, where she served as director from 1998 to 2019. She now leads the Center’s Program in Translational Research. Her current research addresses the multiple impacts on children’s health and development of climate change and air pollution due to fossil fuel emissions and the health and economic benefits of policies to reduce those emissions.