About me
Dr. Elena Craft is President and CEO of the Health Effects Institute, an independent research
organization that provides high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air
pollution. She oversees HEI’s efforts to provide public and private decision makers — in the U.S., Asia,
Europe, and Latin America — with credible science about the health effects of air pollution in order to
inform air quality decisions in the developed and developing world. In this role, Dr. Craft works with
HEI’s sponsors in government and industry, its Scientific Committees and staff, and other environmental
stakeholders to develop and implement the HEI Strategic Plan for Understanding the Health Effects of
Air Pollution, which every five years sets HEI’s course for the targeted, trusted science that has become
the hallmark of HEI. Dr. Craft serves as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Texas Health
Sciences Center and Texas A&M University, and as a Kinder fellow at Rice University. Dr. Craft holds a
B.S. degree in biology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, a M.S. degree in toxicology from
North Carolina State University, and a Ph.D. from Duke University.
