Kelly Turner

V. Kelly Turner (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Urban planning and Geography and serves as Director of the Center for Heat Resilient Communities, a NIHHIS Center for Excellence. She serves as Associate Director of the Luskin Center for Innovation (LCI) where she leads research on heat, providing evidence-based approaches to protect people, where they live, work, learn, and play. Dr. Turner’s current research encompasses heat governance and policy, planning for climate resilient communities, and producing actionable data for heat resilience. Her work has been published in Nature, Environmental Research Letters, and the Journal of the American Planning Association and funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, the National Science Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has served as a panelist for the National Academy of Sciences and as a Science Advisor to the Arsht-Rockefeller Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance.