Evan Singer

Background

About Evan Singer

I am a fifth-year combined doctoral degree candidate at the School of the Environment and Department of Anthropology at Yale University. I study how social and environmental systems interact and impact human health. My dissertation research explores how people who experience mental illness and homelessness cope with living outside, especially during extreme weather events. I have worked locally and internationally on climate change and environmental health issues, including at the Yale Environmental Leadership Training Initiative, the Center for International Forestry Research (Vietnam), the Peace Corps (Cameroon), the Sierra Club of Pennsylvania, Project Gaia, and Indiana University Bloomington. My published worked has addressed evacuation decision making during environmental disasters (Singer et al. 2025), the contribution of disability studies to models of environmental restoration (Kanoi et al. 2024), and the emergence of the field of climate psychiatry (Singer et al. forthcoming). This work has received media coverage from the American Association for the Advancement of Science the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), National Geographic Hungary, and The Weather Network, among other outlets.