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Danielle Eiseman, PhD

Associate Director of the Cornell Health Impacts Core

Department of Public & Ecosystem Health

Cornell Health Impacts Core Cornell Public Health

Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Ithaca, NY 14853

Email: dle58@cornell.edu

Profile

Research/Clinical Interests

Danielle Eiseman, Ph.D. is the Associate Director of the Cornell Health Impacts Core, within the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health at Cornell University. She specializes in novel approaches to public engagement, climate change and public health risk communication, and public policy on climate and health. Recent projects include storytelling on flood experience, extreme heat preparedness and planning, using ice cream to promote community discussions on climate change, and risk and crisis communication training for state and local partners. Danielle has extensive experience working hands-on with communities and policymakers around the world on assessing needs, challenges, and right-fit solutions to community preparedness to climate impacts (forest conservation, best management practices for farmers, drought, flooding, extreme heat, and air quality). Danielle has presented at the UNFCCC COP multiple times, worked with the Scottish Government the Dominican Republic on climate change policy, and is co-author of the book Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need. 

Education

  • Ph.D., Dept. of Marketing, School of Management, Heriot-Watt University                                                    
  • M.S., Carbon Management, Business School, University of Edinburgh                                                            
  • M.S., Marketing and Economics, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, DePaul University                          
  • A.A., Culinary Arts, Scottdale Culinary Institute                                                                                                          
  • B.A., Chemistry, Miami University

Publications

Selected Publications

  1.  Eiseman, D.L., Hayden, A., and Meredith, G. (under review). Extreme weather preparedness among public health emergency management professionals in New York State. Journal of Emergency Management.
  2. Eiseman, D.L, and Johnson, L.M., March 2025. Fostering community discussion about climate with Layers of Life ice cream. Appetite. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2025.107876.
  3. Brenner, R.M., Eiseman, D.L., and Dunn, E.A. June 2024. Decision-making drivers for pandemic response for institutes of higher education. Journal of Emergency Management.
  4. Eiseman, D. L. and Stevenson Won, A. 2023. Community attitudes toward local foods and producers: The Role of warmth versus competence across demographics for social media engagement., Journal of Applied Communications: Vol. 107: Iss. 1. https://doi.org/10.4148/1051-0834.2470
  5. Hoffmann, Michael P., Danielle L Eiseman, and J. P. Schuldt. 2022. This Holiday Season, Climate Change Should Be on the Table. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, December 21. https://thebulletin.org/2022/12/this-holiday-season-climate-change-should-be-on-the-table/#post-heading\.
  6. Eiseman, D., Allred, S., Smallidge, P., Chawla, P., Dellorto-Blackwell, C. and B. Boone. 2021. Marketing the Master Forest Owner Volunteer Program: A Pilot study on the messaging and materials of engagement. Applied Environmental Education and Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1533015X.2021.2013747 [Published online December 2021].
  7. Yu, C., Margolin, D., Fownes, J., Eiseman, D., Chatrchyan. A. and S. Allred. 2021. Tweeting about Climate:  Which politicians speak up, and what do they speak up about? Social Media and Society 7(3): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20563051211033815
  8. Eiseman, D., Allred, S. and P. Smallidge.  2021. Applying service-dominant logic to peer-to-peer experiences between Master Forest Owner volunteers and woodland owners in New York State.  Small-Scale Forestry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11842-021-09485-6 [Published online May 2021].
  9. Eiseman, D., Armstrong, A., & A., Chatrchyan. 2020. Designing an Extension Climate Stewards Volunteer Program: Incorporating sense of community, social practice, and self-efficacy theories. Environmental Education Research. 26, 11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2020.1811841 [Published online August 2020]. 

Books

  1. Hoffmann, M., Koplinka-Loehr, C., & Eiseman, D. 2021. Our Changing Menu: How Climate Change is Affecting the Foods We Love and Need. Cornell University Press.