Nina Brooks is an Assistant Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Her research seeks to document how climate change and air pollution threaten human health and well-being in the Global South and identify real-world, actionable climate mitigation and adaptation strategies. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and draws on methodological approaches from economics, epidemiology, demography, data science, and geography to investigate relationships between the environment and human health and well-being. Her research agenda focuses on two areas: 1) climate and air pollution threats to human well-being and 2) mitigation and adaptation solutions and gender is a cross-cutting theme. Her overarching research goal is to generate evidence that can inform climate and health policy, as well as contribute to a healthy and more equitable environment.

She is currently a section editor for the Data Science section at Current Environmental Health Reports. Before joining SEAS, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health and at the School of Public Policy at the University of Connecticut.