Johanna leading the development of a new climate and health program at Grand Challenges Canada.

Johanna is an environmental epidemiologist and global health scientist with over 15 years of experience working in global health, public health, and clinical research. Her own research and innovation work has involved examining the environmental predictors of malnutrition in infection in children in some of the most densely populated regions in the world, including Mexico City, Mexico and Dhaka, Bangladesh, as well as working in AI predictive modeling of water quality and climate data.

She has an Honours Bachelor of Science (HBSc) from the University of Toronto, a Master of International Public Health (MIPH) from the University of Queensland, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Epidemiology from the University of Queensland. She completed two postdoctoral fellowships from the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University, conducting research funded by the Infectious Disease and Climate Change Program of the Public Health Agency of Canada as well as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Johanna continues to hold an Adjunct Professor position at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she occasionally teaches, and a Research Fellowship at the Children and Environmental Health program in Australia.