Carol Ziegler, is a Professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt University. She is co-founder of the Climate, Health and Energy Equity Lab at the W’Ondry, and serves on the Metro Nashville Board of Health as well as the Lancet Commission Countdown on Climate and Health, and the American Nurse Association’s Planetary and Global Health Innovation Committee.  She also has a primary care clinical practice, Thrive Holistic Care,  she works on identifying and mitigating local health impacts related to climate change.