Harry Kennard, PhD. is a research associate in the Webber Energy Group at The University of Texas at Austin. His work focuses on energy systems and their impacts, particularly on health in the context of the built environment. Since 2020, he has been a leading contributor to the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, developing research and contributing to global and regional reports.
Before joining the Webber Energy group, he was a senior research associate at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, and prior to that a Research Fellow at University College London. He holds a PhD from the UCL Energy Institute, which examined the health impacts of cold homes. He also holds Masters degrees in Energy Demand, Linguistics, Applied Mathematics, and Physics, as well as an undergraduate degree in Physics.
BA, Physics, University of Oxford, 2008
MASt, Physics, University of Cambridge, 2011
MPhil, Applied Mathematics, The Open University, 2013
MA, Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, 2014
MRes, Energy Demand in the Built Environment, UCL, 2016
PhD, UCL, 2019
