Christy Haas-Howard

Christy Haas-Howard oversees the development, execution, and evaluation of health initiatives related to the environment.  She collaborates with the conservation and K-12 education teams to identify priority areas of common interest to maximize resources and impact.  As an experienced health care provider, she tracks emerging trends in the health and environment space, recognizing and amplifying the opportunities to create greater health equity and environmental justice. Christy comes to NEEF with over 17 years as a registered nurse in the school setting.  She has been asthma educator-certified since 2009 and has led various school-based asthma programs at the local and state level.  She has also worked at the national level to cultivate an increase in school nurse’s knowledge and skills related to asthma care.  Christy has presented and published on asthma and the upstream benefits of addressing environmental exposures and climate change.  Her other previous projects include supporting a pilot air quality sensor network and health literacy project in Denver, CO, and implementing an air quality and asthma literacy Environmental Health Nurse Fellowship.  Christy holds a BA in Economics from Claremont McKenna College, a BS in Nursing from Metropolitan State University, Denver, and a MPH from the Colorado School of Public Health.  She enjoys gardening, playing games with her family, walking her dogs, and hiking in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. 

Christy is located in Denver, Colorado.