Arnab Ghosh
Arnab Ghosh is a Senior Faculty Fellow at Cornell Atkinson and Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. His work focuses on the development of interventions to combat the effects of climate-amplified threats on the health and well-being of the general population, and particularly vulnerable subgroups such as older adults. His research focuses on interventions addressing climate-amplified health threats — including hurricanes and extreme heat — with an emphasis on vulnerable populations, healthcare costs, and environmental justice.
Dr. Ghosh served as NIH’s Climate and Health Scholar at the National Institute on Aging (2023–2024), is a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine (2025–2028), and a New York Academy of Medicine Next Generation Fellow. He chairs the National Subcommittee on Health Policy Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine and serves as an Emergency Management Fellow at NYC Health + Hospitals – the largest county healthcare system in the United States.
Clinically, he practices as a hospitalist and medical psychiatry consultant at Weill Cornell, and serves as a Medical Officer for the National Disaster Medical System. He leads Planetary Health education for medical trainees and co-directs the NYP-Weill Cornell-Columbia GME Distinction in Climate, Health, and Sustainability.
Dr. Ghosh holds an MD, a B.A. in Classics and Poetry, and an M.A. in Development Studies from the University of Melbourne, M.Sc. degrees in Health Economics and Policy and Clinical and Translational Science from Cornell, and is completing a Ph.D. in Sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center.