Climate Change and Mental Health Equity

Rhonda Moore, PhD is an Autistic social scientist with over 15 years of combined experience as a medical anthropologist, behavioral scientist and health experience researcher who combines ethnographic methods, narrative and clinical medicine, marketing, health disparities, data science and ethics. She is writer/ editor of the following books: Climate Change and Mental Health Equity ( Springer Nature, 2024), the Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care (Springer Nature , 2012, 2nd edition, Springer Nature, 2019), Biobehavioral Approaches to Pain (Springer Nature 2009) and Cancer Culture and Communication (Springer  Nature, 2004).  Prior to her current role, she was a Program Officer in Global Mental Health at the US National Institutes on Mental Health (NIMH). Her program in Global Mental Health focused on social determinants of health, ethics of new and emerging technologies, citizen science, and climate change and mental health. She was also the program lead for the digital global mental health technology program in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). She received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University, followed by post-doctoral fellowships and training in Behavioral Science (Stanford Medical School), Epidemiology (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) and Hospice/Palliative Care (St. Austell, Cornwall UK). Moore is also currently working to create inclusive organizational cultures that support intersectional neurodiverse lived experiences in the federal workplace and other cultural and institutional contexts.