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Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health 272 CLIMATE CHANGE, THE INDOOR ENVIRONMENT, AND HEALTH nity health from the University of Maryland, in College Park in May 2010. Before joining the IOM, she interned at AED Center on AIDS and Community Health and worked as a clerk for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics through the Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP). Victoria Wittig, PhD, was a winter 2010 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academies. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a PhD in plant biology in May 2008. Her thesis research quantified the effects of two rising greenhouse gases— tropospheric ozone and carbon dioxide—on the growth and productivity of trees, a topic that has implications for understanding and modeling the global carbon cycle and climate change. Previously, Dr. Wittig was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, also at the University of Illinois, where she improved models of photosynthesis to project effects of global changes on the terrestrial carbon cycle. She is now working toward applying her academic training at the intersection of environmental science and public policy in Washington, DC. Rose Marie Martinez, ScD, is Director of the Institute of Medicine Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. Before joining the IOM, she was Senior Health Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, where she studied the effects of health-system change on the public-health infrastructure, access to care for vulnerable populations, managed care, and the health-care workforce. Dr. Martinez is former Assistant Director for Health Financing and Policy with the US General Accounting Office, for which she directed evaluations and policy analysis on national and public-health issues. Dr. Martinez received her doctorate from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

• Front Matter
• Summary
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Background
• 3 Government and Private-Sector Involvement in Climate Change, Indoor Environment, and Health Issues
• 4 Air Quality
• 5 Dampness, Moisture, and Flooding
• 6 Infectious Agents and Pests
• 7 Thermal Stress
• 8 Building Ventilation, Weatherization, and Energy Use
• 9 Key Findings, Guiding Principles, and Priority Issues for Action
• Appendix A: Public Meeting Agendas
• Appendix B: Environmental Protection Agency Contractor Reports on Climate-Change, Indoor-Environment, and Health Topics
• Appendix C: Biographic Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
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