Aparna Bole, MD, serves as special expert, Office of the Director at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and as a senior consultant, Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Climate Change and Health Equity. She is an adjunct associate professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and she practiced for many years as a primary care pediatrician in Cleveland prior to joining HHS. She is particularly interested in the intersection between environmental stewardship, environmental justice and pediatric public health.

Dr. Bole is the immediate past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change, and a former co-chair of the Healthcare Without Harm board of directors. She has previously served in numerous other environmental health leadership roles, including as a member of Ohio’s Lead Advisory Council, the Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition’s steering committee, the Trust for Public Land’s Ohio Advisory Council and the Ohio Environmental Council’s board of directors.