Daniel Smith, PhD, AGPCNP-BC, CNE

Assistant Professor

Daniel Smith.

ADDRESS:
School of Nursing
University at Buffalo
301 B Wende Hall
Buffalo, NY 14214-3079

PHONE: 716-829-6066

Smith's research program examines the effects of climate change on health outcomes of marginalized populations. He is particularly interested in identifying ways to enhance climate change resilience, developing adaptation strategies, and investigating the impact of environmental determinants of health on vulnerable populations.

Smith is an expert in community-based participatory research with Spanish-speaking populations. He is the immediate past co-chair of the Global Nurses Climate Change Committee at the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments and a member of the National Institute of Nursing Research’s Climate Change and Health working group, where he helps to determine the institute’s priorities related to climate change and health.

Smith co-authored ANA’s 2023 position statement “Nurses’ Role in Addressing Global Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health.”  Since 2023, he is also a member of the National Institute of Nursing Research’s climate change and health working group to define nursing research priorities related to climate change. In his nursing practice, he treats those most impacted by climate change, including migrant farmworkers in Pennsylvania and Georgia, the unhoused in Philadelphia, and Nicaraguan sugarcane cutters.

Smith's consultancy work as an occupational health nurse practitioner and scientist has led to the development of worksite-based research and practice protocols that protect workers from heat-related illness when working in high-heat conditions outside. Additionally, he created culturally sensitive health education materials for farmworkers, now utilized in clinics across the East Coast. 

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