Millard Keith
| Grant Category: | Fulbright Specialist Program |
| Project Title: | Planning for Heat Resilience |
| Field of Study: | Urban Planning |
| Home Institution: | The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| Host Institution: | National Institute of Technology, Patna, Bihar |
| Grant Start Month: | November 2025 |
| Duration of Grant: | 14 days |
Brief Bio:
Dr. Ladd Keith is an associate professor in the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning, director of the Heat Resilience Initiative, associate research professor at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, and a distinguished scholar at the University of Arizona. His transdisciplinary research focuses on heat planning, policy, and governance to help increase the heat resilience of communities, regions, and nations across the world. He is the University of Arizona lead of the U.S. Department of Energy-funded Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL); the heat research lead of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-funded Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS); co-investigator of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE); and co-investigator of the U.S. National Institutes of Health-funded Southwest Center on Resilience for Climate Change and Health (SCORCH). Dr. Keith also serves on the Management Committee for the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN), a World Health Organization and World Meteorological Organization joint initiative to protect global populations from the health risks of extreme heat. He has a PhD in arid lands resource sciences and an MS in planning from the University of Arizona.