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Summer fun, late June, Little Bighorn River. Photo courtesy of John Doyle.

Acknowledgments

 

The authors of this report gratefully acknowledge the Montana Healthcare Foundation for providing funds to support this effort.

Assembling Climate Change and Human Health in Montana: A Special Report of the Montana Climate Assessment has involved the collaboration and valued expertise of many health practitioners and climate scientists. In the list below, we acknowledge and thank those individuals, as well as others who reviewed the report, provided strategic guidance or input, and/or helped in the literature review process.

  • Selena Ahmed, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Health and Human Development, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • John Doyle, Crow Tribal Elder, Director and NSF Principal Investigator, Crow Water Quality Project, Crow Environmental Health Steering Committee, Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency, MT
  • Mike Durglo, Jr., BS, Tribal Historic Preservation Department Head, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Pablo, MT
  • Termaine Edmo, BSW, Climate Change Coordinator, Blackfeet Nation, Browning, MT
  • Julia Hobson Haggerty, PhD, Associate Professor, Geography/Earth Sciences Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Greg Holzman, MD, MPH, State Medical Officer, Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Helena, MT
  • Meredith Howard, MS in Community Health, Bozeman, MT
  • Kelsey Jencso, PhD, State Climatologist, Montana Climate Office, Missoula, MT
  • JoRee LaFrance, Doctoral Student, Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ
  • Myra Lefthand, MSW, Violence Against Women Project Coordinator, and Member, Crow Environmental Health Steering Committee, Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency, MT
  • Katie Lindberg, Environmental Engineer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  • Sarah Lorch, Nursing Student and Climate Advocate, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Christine Martin, MS, Program Coordinator and US Department of Agriculture Principal Investigator, Crow Water Quality Project, Crow Environmental Health Steering Committee, Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency, MT
  • Christopher T. Migliaccio, PhD, Research Associate Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
  • Raina Plowright, PhD, DVM, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Julia Ryder BSN, RN, CEN, Board Member, Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate, Bozeman, MT
  • Mark Schure, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Human Development, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Emery Three Irons, MS, Principal Investigator, GIS Watershed Project, and Member, Crow Environmental Health Steering Committee, Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency, MT
  • Gerald Wagner, BS, Director, Blackfeet Environmental Office, Blackfeet Nation, Browning, MT
  • Laura Williamson, MPH, State Epidemiologist, PHSD, Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Helena, MT
  • Sara Young, MEd, Consultant, Great Beginnings for Healthy Native Smiles, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; and Member, Crow Environmental Health Steering Committee, Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency, MT

 

The authors of this report would also like to acknowledge the input and guidance of the following people who attended or advised a 2018 focus group regarding climate change and human health in Montana. Affiliations shown are those each individual had at the time of that meeting. We hope, trust, and plan that the important conversation that started with this focus group, then built to this report, will continue into the future.

  • Alexandra Adams, Director and Principal Investigator, Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Ann Bertagnolli, Program Coordinator, Montana INBRE, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Kyle Bocinsky, Research Associate, Montana Climate Office, Missoula, MT
  • Madison Boone, Program and Communications Manager, Montana Institute on Ecosystems, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Zach Brown, Program Manager, One Montana, Bozeman, MT
  • Lori Byron, SCL Health, Retired Indian Health Service, Hardin, MT
  • Robert Byron, Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate, Hardin, MT
  • John Doyle, Director and NSF Principal Investigator, Crow Water Quality Project, Crow Environmental Health Steering Committee, Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency, MT
  • Dorothy Dupree, Director, Indian Health Services, Billings, MT
  • Margaret Eggers, Research Assistant Professor, Associate Director of Environmental Health Program, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Matt Ferguson, Toxicologist, Montana Environmental Health Education and Assessment Program, Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Helena, MT
  • Ronni Flannery, Director of Advocacy, Healthy Air Campaign, American Lung Association, Missoula, MT
  • Susan Higgins, Research Associate, Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity and Montana INBRE, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Greg Holzman, State Medical Officer, Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Helena, MT
  • Kelsey Jencso, State Climatologist, Montana Climate Office, Missoula, MT
  • Kristin Juliar, Director, Montana Office of Rural Health, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Carson Kadas, Student, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
  • Libby Khumalo, Program Manager, Climate Resilience, Center for Large Landscape Conservation, Bozeman, MT
  • Paul Lachapelle, Professor, Department of Political Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Erin Landguth, INBRE Researcher, School of Public and Community Health Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
  • Mitch Lassa, Member, Big Sky Watershed Corps, Bozeman, MT
  • Bruce Maxwell, Co-Director of the Montana Institute on Ecosystems and Professor of Agroecology and Applied Plant Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Amy Royer, Project Coordinator, Office of Rural Health, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Nick Silverman, Principal Hydroclimatologist, Adaptive Hydrology, Missoula, MT
  • Gerald Wagner, Director, Blackfeet Environment Office, Browning, MT
  • Aaron Wernham, Chief Executive Officer, Montana Healthcare Foundation, Bozeman, MT
  • Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor in Earth Sciences and Fellow of the Montana Institute on Ecosystems, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  • Xufei Yang, INBRE Researcher, Department of Environmental Engineering, Montana Tech, Butte, MT
  • Heather Zimmerman, Epidemiology Program Manager, Cancer Surveillance and Epidemiology, Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Helena, MT

 

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