Sustainable Health Strategist
Creating Healthy, Resilient Communities through
the Integration of Public Health, Ecology, and Sustainable Infrastructure
The way you build your town will determine the health of your community for years to come. Make the choice to integrate a public health perspective into your projects.
Work with Me
Municipalities
Helping municipalities integrate public health perspectives into their development and infrastructure projects.
Engineering Firms
Helping engineering firms integrate public health perspectives into their designs and advising on hospital sustainability.
Nonprofits
Supporting nonprofits in the ecology and health spaces with strategic planning, marketing, and fundraising.
Health Systems
Help for health systems seeking to reduce carbon emissions, support patient care, and create a sustainable food supply.
Increased tree canopy can reduce ozone and particulate pollution enough to significantly reduce hospital admissions, lost work days, and mortality.
– Health Impact Assessment of Philadelphia’s 2025 Tree Canopy Cover Goals
As a public health professional with expertise in epidemiology, medical entomology, and ecology, I advise health systems, municipalities, and engineering firms on integrating sustainability, resilience, and community health into infrastructure planning and project design.
My public health career began in program evaluation and data reporting. I found I loved communications and ventured into the world of marketing – including seven years running my own healthcare marketing firm. By 2022, I could no longer resist my love of pollinators and launched GreenTown Consulting. My work now focuses on promoting community health alongside environmental sustainability.
I hold a Master’s in Public Health from Tulane (Epidemiology, Parasitology, Medical Entomology), a Professional Certificate in Sustainability from MIT, and a BA in Spanish from University of Minnesota. I have advanced training in Life Cycle Assessment for the Health Sector from Columbia University, Healthcare Sustainability from Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, and Green Infrastructure from Oregon State University. I am a certified Master Naturalist and Master Forest Peer Educator through Cornell and a certified Pollinator Steward through Pollinator Partnership.
Many of us working in the climate-environment-health spaces are excited about all the opportunities to make neighborhoods and communities better, healthier places to live. Jennifer’s work takes many of these somewhat disparate considerations for sustainability (pollinator gardens, local air pollution exposure risks, architecture, dark skies protocols, etc.) and folds them all into conversations and plans for creating healthier health systems. Health systems need integrated sustainability thinkers and Jennifer provides that expertise.
The New York Planning Federation has collaborated with Jennifer Michelle on several planning and zoning training webinars. She is superb! Her presentations are well-organized, chock full of valuable information and of great use to our 5,000 members across New York State. She is a very intelligent and thoughtful person who works hard at delivering quality products. As the NYPF Executive Director, I highly recommend her services.
Working with Jennifer to educate the Planning Board was a professional and streamlined process. She started with a detailed scope document, promptly scheduled a kick-off call, delivered her report on-time, and responded quickly to our requested clarifications. I am certain we will work with her again.
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