Jessie Pinchoff

Jessie Pinchoff is a senior researcher working in the International Development Division at AIR, bringing internationally recognized expertise in climate change, global health, and gender. Her work focuses on studying how climate change affects different health and development outcomes, often by layering satellite-derived and remotely sensed imagery with surveys and other datasets, such as health surveillance from national DHIS2 open-source platforms. She is also exploring how air pollution affects mental health and learning outcomes for adolescents. She has published more than fifty peer-reviewed studies in prominent journals, including Environmental Research Letters and BMJ Global Health.

Prior to joining AIR, Dr. Pinchoff led the Population, Environmental Risks, and the Climate Crisis (PERCC) initiative at the nonprofit international organization Population Council, integrating climate change research across the organization’s 14 country offices and exploring intersections with health, education, and adolescent programming. She led research exploring the rise of sea levels and coastal drinking water salinity in Bangladesh and its effects on pre-eclampsia, and a participatory, youth co-led research study in Bangladesh, Guatemala and Nigeria, exploring adolescents’ perceptions and experiences of climate change. She also led climate-focused analyses from an online survey of over 150,000 young people in Mexico, exploring effects on mental health and intersections with COVID-19.