Pallavi Pant

Pallavi Pant is Head of Global Initiatives at the Health Effects Institute, fostering high-quality research and effective science-based communication. She is an air quality scientist with 15 years of experience working on air pollution and health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Her research has focused on air quality, source apportionment, and exposure assessment. Dr. Pant has contributed extensively to public engagement, capacity strengthening, and science communication, working to increase awareness of air pollution and its health impacts globally. She serves on editorial boards for Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health and PLOS Global Public Health and chairs the Governing Board of OpenAQ. She also advises global air quality and health efforts through her roles on advisory committees for the World Health Organization and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition. Her research and perspectives have been featured in high-impact media such as Scientific American, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Dr. Pant holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Health from the University of Birmingham, UK and a Masters in Environmental Sciences from the TERI School of Advanced Studies, India.