Anna Bershteyn has worked in HIV research for years — a field that has advanced so much the last few decades she hopes it’s on its way to becoming obsolete.
Now, the health expert is turning her attention to what she sees as another global crisis: extreme heat.
“I don’t know if a lab like mine, focused on HIV, is going to be needed in a decade,” Bershteyn said last week at a panel in Washington, D.C., that was hosted by the climate intervention nonprofit SilverLining.
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“At the same time, I’ve been following climate somewhat distantly … And I started to wonder, well, who’s doing the same work that I do on pandemics — but for extreme heat?”
