Dr. Katie Fiorella is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences and Master of Public Health Program, and she is a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and the Center for Health Equity. She holds a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy & Management and a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. She is an environmental scientist and epidemiologist, and her research aims to understand the interactions among environmental change and livelihood, food, and nutrition security. Katie’s work is focused on global fisheries, and the households that are reliant on the environment to access food and income. She uses interdisciplinary methods, and her work aims to foster a deeper understanding of how ecological and social systems interact, the ways communities and households adapt to and mitigate environmental change, and the links between human well being and ecological sustainability.