Dr. Tess Wiskel is a Clinical Fellow and Instructor at Harvard Medical School, and and a graduate of the Climate and Human Health Fellowship with a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also a Research Scientist at CrisisReady, where she worked on the California Wildfires Project alongside Dr. Satchit Balsari. She has centered her career on improving care for at risk populations, both locally and globally.
During medical school and residency, she conducted research, education and advocacy focusing on global and women’s health, including developing an accident and emergency HIV testing program in Belize and an educational elective in reproductive health in emergency care. She is now a Burke Research Fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute.
An emergency physician, Dr. Wiskel completed her residency at Brown University and earned her MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.