Impact scholar
Érinn Cameron is an impact scholar with the Center. Her global health focus centers on understanding how climate change and environmental stressors, such as water insecurity and extreme heat, impact mental health and healthcare utilization, particularly among perinatal women and families in low-resource settings. She works to advance global health equity by developing scalable, community-based, culturally responsive interventions, such as modifications to homes and dwellings, that improve all aspects of maternal and child health, strengthen resilience, expand access to mental health and perinatal care, and build local capacity for sustainable healthcare. Her interests in global health equity align with the Center’s themes of empowering women, strengthening systems for health, and addressing social and environmental determinants of health. Cameron’s research investigates the impact of environmental determinants, particularly extreme heat and water insecurity, on physical and mental health in low-resource settings. Her primary focus is on perinatal mental health, healthcare utilization, treatment adherence, and birth outcomes. By partnering with communities in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa through participatory community engagement, she aims to generate evidence that informs policy, guides intervention development and implementation, and supports global mental health equity in the context of climate change.
