Dr. Balbus is the Acting Director of the HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity. A physician and public health professional with over 25 years of experience working on the health implications of climate change, Dr. Balbus has served as HHS Principal to the U.S. Global Change Research Program since he joined the federal government in 2009. He also helped create and co-chair that organization’s working group on Climate Change and Human Health. Before coming over to the new Office, Dr. Balbus served as Senior Advisor for Public Health to the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.