Hannah Greenwald Healy, Ph.D.

Dr. Hannah Healy is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Science within the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Hannah is from Atlanta, GA and received her B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Georgia Tech. She later received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and was appointed as a Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. Dr. Healy was a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the NWRI WateReuse Fellowship, the AWWA American Water Scholarship, and the Berkeley CEE Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award.

Dr. Healy’s research focuses on pathogens and microbiomes of engineered water systems to inform water management/treatment, infectious disease surveillance, and healthcare infection prevention. She was inspired to study water and environmental exposures after a series of outbreaks of waterborne illness in her community while living in Panama. Outside of work, Hannah loves traveling, hiking, thrifting, SciFi novels, and cozy coffee shops.

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