World Health Organization (WHO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Joy Shumake-Guillemot leads the WHO/WMO Joint Office for Climate and Health in Geneva Switzerland, and is the co-coordinator of the GHHIN. She is an environmental health scientist and public health practitioner who has worked with WHO, WMO, UNICEF and others to develop public health policy and programming for climate adaptation and risk management. She has extensive field experience in Africa, Asia, and Latin America supporting public health and humanitarian assistance programs.

Joy is a leading voice in the field of climate services for health. For over a decade, she has been working at the interface of WMO and WHO to to accelerate the availability, access and use of climate and weather information that can improve public health policy and practice. Joy received her MSc in Environment and International Development Policy from the University of East Anglia (UK) and Doctor of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences from Johns Hopkins University (USA).