Hello! My name is Vivian Do, and I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego. Broadly, my research centers on the impacts of climate change-related exposures on health. Specifically, I am interested in compounding events (e.g., power outage+wildfire smoke+heatwave) and energy insecurity. In 2025, I received my PhD in Environmental Health Sciences at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. Prior to the PhD, I received my MPH in Epidemiology with a concentration in Climate & Health from Columbia University. I was a 2019-2020 Fulbright scholar at the University of Hong Kong, where I conducted research on the role of temperature variability and ozone on population health.​

Informed by my personal experiences, I am particularly dedicated to integrating frameworks of environmental justice and health equity into my research. I grew up in a medically under-served, largely immigrant, low-income neighborhood where major freeways and gas stations brought in a constant stream of noise and air pollution. While I loved (and still love!) my neighborhood, I was intimately familiar with the health consequences of environmental exposures and how these consequences were particularly worse for under-resourced and marginalized communities like my own.​​

Beyond research, I am a huge fan of my dog (and all dogs) and learning about weather science. My partner believes that the animal best symbolizing me is a wombat.