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Kristie L. Ebi is an epidemiologist in the US whose primary focus is the impact of global warming on human health. She is a professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.

Education
Ebi graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry in 1972. In 1976, she completed a Master of Science in toxicology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She then went to the University of Michigan where she got a Masters of Public Health (1983) and PhD (1985) in epidemiology. She then spent two years doing postgraduate research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Career
Ebi's research focuses on the health risks of climate variability and climate change, including extreme events, heat stress, food safety und vector-borne disease, and adaptation strategies to address these risks in environments with multiple stress factors.

Ebi was a lead author of the 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Ebi's chapter documents the impacts that 1.5°C of global warming would have on natural and human systems. In public debate on the climate crisis, Ebi compared the report to a doctor with a serious diagnosis for their patient: "If you have cancer, you need the doctor to tell you how serious your cancer is and what your options are."

At TED 2019, Ebi spoke about the effects of increased carbon dioxide on the nutritional content of food.

Publications (selected)

 * Kristie L. Ebi, Jan C. Semenza (2008). Community-based adaptation to the health impacts of climate change. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35(5), 501–507. 10.1016/j.amepre.2008.08.018
 * Brian C. O’Neill, Elmar Kriegler, Kristie L. Ebi, Eric Kemp-Benedict, Keywan Riahi, Dale S. Rothman, Bas J. van Ruijven, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Joern Birkmann, Kasper Kok, Marc Levy, William Solecki (2017). The roads ahead: narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century. Global Environmental Change, 42, 169–180. 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.01.004
 * Chunwu Zhu, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Irakli Loladze, Jianguo Zhu, Qian Jiang, Xi Xu, Gang Liu, Saman Seneweera, Kristie L. Ebi, Adam Drewnowski, Naomi K. Fukagawa, Lewis H. Ziska (2018). Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels this century will alter the protein, micronutrients, and vitamin content of rice grains with potential health consequences for the poorest rice-dependent countries. Science Advances, 4(5). 10.1126/sciadv.aaq1012