Visiting Associate Fellow, Adaptation and Resilience

purvi@sustainablefutures.org

Dr Purvi Patel is a Visiting Associate Fellow in the Adaptation and Resilience vertical at the Sustainable Futures Collaborative, where her work focuses on the intersection of climate change, public health, and policy. She is a public health professional with over a decade of experience in climate and environmental health, disease surveillance, and health systems strengthening. Previously, she served as a Senior Consultant to the National Programme on Climate Change and Human Health (NPCCHH) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, where she worked on health-sector responses to extreme heat and climate-resilient health facilities. Dr Patel completed her Masters in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, after her medical training at Gujarat University. She is an alumna of the India-Epidemic Intelligence Service, an advanced field epidemiology training programme from the National Centre of Disease Control, MoHFW. Her work has contributed to the expansion of national heat-health surveillance, development of State climate–health action plans, national guidelines and technical tools, and strengthening of multisectoral coordination. She has represented India in national and international climate–health forums and contributed to policy-relevant research and publications. Her professional interests include environmental health, climate adaptation and health, resilient health systems, awareness and capacity building, monitoring-evaluation, and the design of evidence-informed public health responses.