Jonathan Buonocore, Sc.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. His research mainly focuses on evaluating the health impacts of energy systems, and modeling health “co-benefits” of climate mitigation strategies and energy policies.
He has evaluated air pollution related health impacts from a number of sectors, including electricity generation, transportation, buildings, and oil and gas production. He has also modeled the health co-benefits of strategies including further buildout of renewable energy in the United States, Federal carbon emissions standards on power plants, carbon cap-and-invest policies for transportation in the Northeast U.S., and building electrification.
Currently, he is developing methods to better incorporate equity and environmental justice (EJ) concerns into climate and energy policy assessments, along with evaluating other possible unintended consequences. He is also leading work evaluating exposed populations, infrastructure quality, and potential health impacts around underground natural gas storage facilities, pipelines, and other “midstream” infrastructure, along with evaluating novel technologies to decarbonize building heating.