Meet the 2025 Winner: Mary B. Rice, MD, MPH
Dr. Mary B. Rice, MD, MPH, is the director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE) and the Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Respiratory Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a pulmonary critical care physician and the director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Institute for Lung Health, where she is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of research for the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine. Rice's area of investigation focuses on the influence of environmental exposures, including air pollution and climate, on the respiratory health of children and adults and the development of interventions to mitigate these health effects. She is the principal investigator of an NIH-funded clinical trial of home air purification for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and leads the environmental health research program of the American Lung Association Lung Health Cohort. She also co-leads the Center for Climate: Equitable and Accessible Research-based Testing for Health (C-EARTH), an NIH-funded P20 Center which aims to bring sustainable climate solutions to heat-stressed, low-income communities around the globe. Rice chaired the ATS's Environmental Health Policy Committee 2018-2021 and is the incoming chair of the Environmental, Occupational and Population Health Assembly of the ATS. From Oct 2024 until Jan 2025, she served on the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), an independent scientific committee that advises the U.S. EPA on National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
Description
This is award is given to a primary EOPH member with exemplary commitment to EOPH (and ATS), to advancing the mission of the assembly, and with demonstrated significant and sustained contributions to the assembly in the areas of research, improving public health, teaching, mentoring, and/or service (may include leadership). Individuals eligible for consideration at the associate professor level (or equivalent), within <5 years of full Professor, or within 10-20 years from first faculty/investigator appointment. Nominations of diverse candidates (by gender, race/ethnicity, country, area of focus and primary occupation) are highly encouraged.
Criteria
- Associate professor (or equivalent), within <5 years of full Professor, or within 10-20 years from first faculty/investigator appointment
- EOPH Assembly Member (primary)
- Exemplary commitment to EOPH and ATS and to advancing the mission of the EOPH assembly
- Significant and sustained contributions to the assembly in the areas of research, improving public health, teaching, mentoring, and/or service (may incl- leadership)
Note: Award nominations will be carried over for 3 years and the Planning Committee may choose to move nominees to a different award category for optimal review.