QUIET LANDCARE CHAIR

Jamie Banks, PhD, MSc, is Founder and President of Quiet Communities. She is a health care and environmental scientist with an extensive background in health outcomes and economics, behavior change, and policy who brings a multi-faceted perspective to her work. During her career, she held senior positions at leading consulting firms, working with the healthcare industry. In 2007, she turned her attention to environmental health and founded Quiet Communities in 2013 to promote the value of quiet and work to reduce harmful noise and pollution. In addition to her role at Quiet Communities, she chairs the Noise & Health Committee of the American Health Association (APHA) where she led the development of APHA’s 2021 policy statement, Noise as a Public Health Hazard, is a member of the American Heart Association and International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, and participates in the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise. Jamie is an author of several peer review publications and is a presenter at scientific conferences. She earned her PhD from the University of Kent (UK) and Master’s degrees from Dartmouth Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.