Irwin Redlener, Senior Advisor

Irwin Redlener, M.D.

Irwin Redlener, M.D. serves as a senior advisor to the Arms Control Association with a focus on nuclear threat reduction and disarmament. He is an pediatrician and public health activist who specializes in health care for underserved children and disaster planning, response, and recovery. Redlener is an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs, as well as the Founding Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine as well as president emeritus and co-founder (with singer-songwriter Paul Simon and Karen Redlener) of Children's Health Fund (CHF). In 2022, Redlener co-founded the Ukraine Children's Action Project in response to the displacement of children and families consequent to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. UCAP focuses on supporting the educational continuity and mental health of displaced children in Ukraine and Poland.