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Jonathan M. Samet
Jonathan M. Samet is an American pulmonary physician and epidemiologist whose research on air pollution, tobacco smoke, and radon has shaped public health regulation and tobacco controls.
Jordi Sunyer
Jordi Sunyer is a Spanish physician and environmental epidemiologist at ISGlobal in Barcelona, known for linking air pollution to children's asthma, lung function, and brain development.
Juha Pekkanen
Juha Pekkanen is a Finnish physician and epidemiologist, professor emeritus at the University of Helsinki, known for finding that farm-like indoor microbiota protects children from asthma.
Junfeng Zhang
Junfeng (Jim) Zhang is an environmental health scientist and professor at Duke University since 2013, known for studies linking air pollution to cardiovascular and respiratory outcomes.
Kirk R. Smith
Kirk R. Smith (1947–2020) was an American environmental health scientist at UC Berkeley who established household air pollution from cooking smoke as a major global health risk.
Kristie L. Ebi
Kristie L. Ebi is an epidemiologist and University of Washington professor who has worked on climate change and health for over 30 years, including leading IPCC assessments.
Linda Birnbaum
Linda Birnbaum is an American toxicologist known for research on dioxins and endocrine-disrupting chemicals who led NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program from 2009 to 2019.
Majid Ezzati
Majid Ezzati is an Iranian-born global-health epidemiologist, Professor of Global Environmental Health at Imperial College London, who quantifies how behavioral, environmental, and metabolic risk factors cause death worldwide.
Manish Arora
Manish Arora is an environmental epidemiologist at Mount Sinai known for using baby teeth to reconstruct early-life chemical exposure, winning a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.
Mauricio Hernández Ávila
Mauricio Hernández Ávila is a Mexican physician and epidemiologist who twice directed the National Institute of Public Health and led research on tobacco, lead exposure, and HPV vaccination.
Michelle Bell
Michelle Bell is an environmental health scientist at Yale who studies how air pollution, weather, and climate affect health, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.
Neil Pearce
Neil Pearce is a New Zealand epidemiologist and biostatistician, professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, known for asthma research and co-founding ISAAC.
Newsha Ghaeli
Newsha Ghaeli is an Iran-born Canadian researcher and entrepreneur who led urban sensing projects at MIT's Senseable City Lab and is president and co-founder of Biobot Analytics, the first company to commercialize sewage data.
Nicholas Wald
Sir Nicholas John Wald, born 1944, is a British physician and epidemiologist who pioneered antenatal screening, showed folic acid prevents neural tube defects, and co-invented the Polypill.
Nick Watts
Nick Watts is an Australian- and UK-licensed medical doctor who directs the Centre for Sustainable Medicine at NUS, after serving as NHS England's first Chief Sustainability Officer.
Paul Elliott (physician-epidemiologist)
Paul Elliott is a British physician-epidemiologist, Professor at Imperial College London, who directs the REACT Covid-19 surveillance program tracking infection in over 3 million people in England.
Paul Wilkinson (epidemiologist)
Paul Wilkinson was a British environmental epidemiologist and professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who researched climate change and air pollution.
Philip J. Landrigan
Philip J. Landrigan is an American pediatrician and epidemiologist whose El Paso lead studies helped remove lead from gasoline and shaped children's environmental health policy.
Richard Joseph Jackson
Richard Joseph Jackson is an American pediatrician and epidemiologist at UCLA who led the CDC's environmental health center and linked community design to chronic disease.
Robert S. Lawrence
Robert S. Lawrence is an American physician and Johns Hopkins public health professor who founded the Center for a Livable Future and chaired the first U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Roger O. McClellan
Roger O. McClellan is an American inhalation toxicologist who led the Lovelace institute in Albuquerque and the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1990.
Samuel S. Myers
Samuel S. Myers, also known as Samuel Myers, is an American physician-scientist who directs the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health and studies how environmental change affects human health.
Serpil Erzurum
Serpil C. Erzurum is an American pulmonologist-scientist and Cleveland Clinic's Chief Research and Academic Officer, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017 for asthma research.
Stanton A. Glantz
Stanton A. Glantz, also known as Stanton Glantz, is an American researcher and retired UCSF professor of medicine known for analyzing tobacco industry documents and shaping smoke-free air policy.
Thomas Clasen
Thomas F. Clasen is an environmental epidemiologist and Rose Salamone Gangarosa Professor of Environmental Health at Emory University, known for trials of water treatment and the HAPIN cookstove study.
Tony McMichael
Tony McMichael, born Anthony John McMichael, was an Australian epidemiologist who founded the study of climate change and human health, and documented lead's harm to children.
Tracey Jean Woodruff
Tracey Jean Woodruff is an American environmental health scientist who spent over a decade at the EPA before directing UCSF's Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment.
Walter J. Rogan
Walter J. Rogan is an American physician-epidemiologist who spent his career at NIEHS in North Carolina, known for breast-milk pollutant cohorts, the TLC succimer lead trial, and a 2005 DDT review.
Yuming Guo
Yuming Guo, also known as Yu Guo, is an Australian environmental epidemiologist and biostatistician at Monash University who studies how air pollution and climate affect health.