Dr. Rohaida Ismail is the Head of Climate Change Unit at the Environmental Health Research Centre, Institute for Medical Research. She graduated from the University Kebangsaan Malaysia for Medical Doctor (M.D) in 2000, and Master in Community Medicine (Environmental Health) in 2009. She is a Public Health Medicine Specialist with research interest in health outcomes of climate change, extreme weather events, environmental degradation and built environment. Her current works are on climate change vulnerability and adaptation, and health impacts of air pollution and rising temperature. Among her accomplishments, she is the lead author for the Public Health Sector in the Malaysia Reports of National Communication and Biennial Update Report to UNFCC in 2018 and 2022. She was also the contributing author to the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2018 on climate change and health. She is actively involved as a committee in the Malaysian Society for Environmental Epidemiology (MySEE).