Ray Yeager Email and Phone Number

Dr. Yeager is an interdisciplinary health geographer. His research program focuses on the complex and place-dependent interplay between environmental factors and human health. Dr. Yeager's research extends to studying the health effects of environmental exposures, equitable public health interventions, and the development of nature-based solutions to address climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.Collaborating with organizations including The Nature Conservancy, the Arbor Day Foundation, and the U.S. Forest Service, he works to translate scientific findings into effective policies and interventions. Dr. Yeager is dedicated to bridging research and practice, advocating for sustainable and health-promoting environmental policies to combat the interconnected local and global challenges of our time.Integrated with his research program, Dr. Yeager oversees collection, storage, analysis, and interpretation of geospatial information at the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute. This includes geographic data analysis methods of geocoded participant records, assessment of geophysical characteristics, characterization of environmental exposures, and development of visual representations of geographic information.His expertise is integrated throughout the Envirome Institute, Center for Healthy Air Water and Soil, Superfund Research Center, and Center for Integrated Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Yeager is also a member of the American Geophysical Union, National Institutes of Health Climate Change and Health Research Coordinating Center Community of Practice, and International Society of Environmental Epidemiology where he also serves on the policy committee of the North America Chapter.