Professor Dr. David Eisenman

Biography

David Eisenman, MD, is a professor and director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters. He holds a joint appointment at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and is an associate natural scientist at RAND. His work focuses on public health and disaster preparedness, emphasizing community resilience, climate change health impacts, and mental health trauma. He is involved in studying the interactions between social and built-environment factors that predict heatwave-related mortality and morbidity, as well as exploring the effects of extreme weather events on mental health. Eisenman leads the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project, a neighborhood-based initiative aimed at enhancing community-level resilience to disasters. His research includes urban heat management and land cover changes to improve health outcomes in low-income communities of color.

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