Irwin Redlener, M.D., is Senior Research Scholar and founding director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. He is also a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In 1987. along with singer Paul Simon and Karen Redlener, Dr Redlener is co-founder of The Children’s Health Fund.
In April 2022 he co-founded, along with Karen Redlener, the Ukraine Children’s Action Project. The Redleners have visited Ukraine and Poland on a number of occasions where they work with children, families and teachers in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion on 2/24/22
The author of two books, Americans at Risk: Why We’re Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We can Do Now and Nautilus Book Prize winner, The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for 21st America. He has authored more than 50 opinion pieces in recent years in publications including the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, The Hill and others.
Since 2020, Dr. Redlener has been serving as an on-air public health analyst for MSNBC.
Irwin Redlener, M.D., is Senior Research Scholar and founding director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. He is also a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In 1987. along with singer Paul Simon and Karen Redlener, Dr Redlener is co-founder of The Children’s Health Fund.
In April 2022 he co-founded, along with Karen Redlener, the Ukraine Children’s Action Project. The Redleners have visited Ukraine and Poland on a number of occasions where they work with children, families and teachers in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion on 2/24/22
The author of two books, Americans at Risk: Why We’re Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We can Do Now and Nautilus Book Prize winner, The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for 21st America. He has authored more than 50 opinion pieces in recent years in publications including the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, The Hill and others.
Since 2020, Dr. Redlener has been serving as an on-air public health analyst for MSNBC.
