Rate My Professor Marshall Burke

Marshall Burke is professor of Global Environmental Policy in the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University and professor of Environmental Social Sciences. He is also a senior fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He serves as a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and holds a courtesy appointment as professor of Earth System Science. Burke directs the Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab at Stanford. He is co-founder of AtlasAI and co-creator of the Environmental Hazards Adaptation Atlas. His research employs tools from the social and natural sciences to quantify environmental change, assess its societal impacts, and evaluate potential responses.

Burke earned a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in International Relations from Stanford University. He teaches courses including Topics and Methods in Global Environmental Policy and Empirical Methods in Sustainable Development. Recent publications include work on wildfire smoke and mortality under climate change, temperature extremes and health outcomes, and climate impacts on dengue burden, appearing in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Science Advances.