Sarah Lowe

Clinical psychologist and psychiatric epidemiologist. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health, where she leads the Climate Change and Mental Health Program within the Yale Center for Climate Change and Health. Her research focuses on the long-term mental health consequences of exposure to potentially traumatic events, the mechanisms linking such exposure to health outcomes, and the role of social and ecological factors in shaping psychological risk and resilience.

Part of her recent work expands the field of climate change and mental health research beyond a focus on weather-related disasters to include slow environmental changes and existential threats, as well as the role of hope and collective action in strengthening mental well-being.