Dr. Peter Kahn, NCLC’s Senior Medical Advisor for Public Health and Policy
Dr. Peter Kahn is a fellow in the Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine with honors and his M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the department of Health Policy and Management. Dr. Kahn’s research has focused on health policy with a particular interest in the impact of climate change and utilities on health policy.
Featured Work
Op-ed in The Messenger: Extreme Weather Intensifies Need for Stronger Safeguards for Older and Medically Vulnerable
In an editorial appearing in The Messenger on August 8, 2023, Dr. Peter Kahn and Charlie Harak discuss utility shut-off protections for medically vulnerable customers and older adults, for whom access to electricity can be a matter of a life and death.
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Op-Ed in The Hill: Regulators can save lives by protecting medically vulnerable utility users
In an op-ed appearing in The Hill on September 10, 2022, Samuel Whillans, co-director of the Yale Environmental Protection Clinic at Yale Law School and a fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Dr. Peter Kahn is a fellow in the Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, and…
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