Dr. Robin Cooper is a private practice psychiatrist in San Francisco, California.

She has an appointment as Associate Voluntary Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at University of California San Francisco. She has worn many different hats as educator, supervisor and mentor with psychiatric residents and medical students.

Since learning about the threats of climate disruption over a decade ago, Dr. Cooper has focused most of her efforts on climate change with attention to both education and advocacy about the impacts on health and specifically mental health. She is now a recognized expert in the growing field of climate psychology/psychiatry/mental health.

She is co-founder and President of Climate Psychiatry Alliance, a national group of psychiatrists and mental health professionals focused on the specific impacts of climate change on mental health with the goal utilizing this knowledge to promote awareness and effective action on the climate crisis.