Degrees

B.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

About

Brennan-Galvin's research focuses on a range of urban environmental issues, primarily in developing countries. Her current work ranges from the role of small-scale water providers to eco-sanitation to the linkages between alternative transportation systems, air pollution and GHG emissions in developing country cities. Prior to coming to Yale, she was Chief of the Population Policy Section of the United Nations Population Division, where she worked for 25 years. She has conducted research on urban environmental issues and policies in more than 20 developing country cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America and is the author numerous case studies on mega-cities published by the United Nations. In recent years, Dr. Brennan-Galvin served on the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Population, as well as on the Committee on the Geographic Foundation for Agenda 21. She also served on the NAS Panel that produced Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World (2003). She was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and a Population Council Fellow at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University.