Dr Elizabeth Greig is currently an Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine with a dual appointment in Civil and Architectural Engineering at the University of Miami. She serves the Co-Director of the University of Miami Global Institute for Community Health and Development, focusing on global health, disaster response, climate and health, and developing resilient healthcare. In conjunction with UM’s Climate Resilience Institute, her focus is on unorthodox partnerships in disaster preparedness to strengthen public health in the setting of South Florida, Latin American and the Caribbean’s climate stressed environment. She holds a bachelor’s from the University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at New York Presbyterian- Cornell and holds a certificate in Community Preparedness and Disaster Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was previously on faculty. She runs the Interdisciplinary Professional Education curriculum in Disaster Management and Climate Change and teaches in the departments of Medicine, Public Health, Engineering and the International Administration program.
