Dr. Heidi Honegger Rogers a family nurse practitioner, advanced practice holistic nurse and a clinician educator assistant professor at the University of New Mexico(UNM) College of Nursing. As an educator, she has led the graduate level evidence informed practice, nursing leadership in population health and the theoretical foundations courses as well as serving as a chair of several Doctor of Nursing Practice translational research projects. She has a strong theoretical foundation in environmental health and has had educational training in Community Based Participatory Research, climate change and health adaptation, and climate change communication. She has designed and is lead for an interprofessional course on Climate Change and Public Health Preparedness. She also currently serves as the Director of Interprofessional Education for the UNM Health Sciences Center, which is responsible for the development of integrated curriculum and experiential content for eight HSC and UNM health professions programs. She is an active member of the environmental health and climate change work groups at the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. She is also a member of the Lancet Countdown US Policy Brief team, which is looking at the impacts of climate change and related natural disasters on health and well-being in the US.