Erinn Cameron
Erinn C. Cameron is an impact scholar and research fellow at the University of Michigan Center for Global Health Equity and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Her research examines the environmental determinants of health, with a particular focus on climate change, water insecurity, and extreme heat as drivers of maternal and mental health inequities in underserved populations globally.
Dr. Cameron’s work integrates clinical psychology, global health, and urban planning through mixed-methods and community-based participatory approaches. She collaborates with partners in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America to investigate how climate-related stressors affect mental health, perinatal outcomes, and health equity. Her current projects include validating measures of clinical health assessment across cultures, assessing the impact of water insecurity on maternal mental health and healthcare engagement, and testing scalable interventions such as reflective roof coatings to mitigate extreme heat exposure in low-resource settings.
She has authored peer-reviewed publications on climate change and mental health, gendered vulnerabilities, and global psychology, and serves as co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of People and the Planet. Her research has been recognized with multiple early-career awards, including honors from the American Psychological Association and international professional societies.
Dr. Cameron teaches several undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology from a cross-cultural perspective. She is committed to integrating global, decolonizing, and climate justice perspectives into her teaching and mentoring of students.
Dr. Cameron completed her doctoral clinical residency in Integrated Behavioral Health at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She was a 2022-2023 HBNU Fogarty global health fellow and a T-32 global psychiatry clinical research fellow at Boston University Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Cameron holds a bachelor of arts in chemistry and biology from Asbury University, a master of arts in clinical psychology, and a doctor of philosophy in clinical psychology from Fielding Graduate University.
