Technical Advisory Board

  Pat Breysse
Director of the Division of Environmental Health Engineering
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Pat Breysse is currently the Director of the ABET accredited Industrial Hygiene Program and is the Associate Director of the Center for Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment. In this context, most of Dr. Breysse's research concentrates on exposure assessment with a resulting emphasis on public health problem solving particularly in the workplace. Exposure assessment research includes pollutant source characterization, exposure measurement and interpretation, development and use of biomarkers of exposure/dose/effect, and evaluating relationships between sources, exposures, doses and disease. Dr. Breysse's research contribution has included investigations of electron microscopic methods for asbestos analysis, and the development and evaluation of optical and electron microscopic analytical methods for synthetic vitreous fibers exposure assessments.


  Jack Caravanos, Dr.PH, CIH, CSP
Director, MS/MPH program in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Hunter College

Jack Caravanos is an Assistant Professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York where he directs the MS and MPH program in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. He received his Master of Science from Polytechnic University in NYC and proceeded to earn his Doctorate in Public Health (Env Health) from Columbia University's School of Public Health in 1984. Dr. Caravanos holds certification in industrial hygiene (CIH) and industrial safety (CSP) and prides himself as being an "environmental health practitioner". He specializes in lead poisoning, mold contamination, asbestos and community environmental health risk.

Dr. Caravanos has extensive experience in variety of urban environmental and industrial health problems and is often called upon to assist in environmental health assessments (i.e. lead/zinc smelter in Mexico, health risks at the World Trade Center, ground water contamination in NJ and municipal landfill closures in Brooklyn). Presently he is on the technical advisory panel of the Citizens Advisory Committee for the Brooklyn-Queens Aquifer Feasibility Study (a NYC Department of Environmental Protection sponsored community action committee evaluating health risks associated with aquifer restoration).


  Josh Ginsberg, Ph.D.
Director of Asia Programs, Wildlife Conservation Society

As Director of Asia Programs at the Wildlife Conservation Society, Josh Ginsberg oversees 100 projects in 16 countries. He received a B.S. from Yale, and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton. Dr. Ginsberg spent 17 years as a field biologist/conservationist working in Asia and Africa on a variety of wildlife issues. He has held faculty positions at Oxford University, University College London, is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, and is the author of over 40 reviewed papers and three books on wildlife conservation, ecology and evolution.


  David Hanrahan


  David Hunter, Sc.D.
Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard University School of Public Health

Dr. Hunter received an M.B.B.S. (Australian Medical Degree) from the University of Sydney. He continued his formal education at Harvard University, receiving his Sc.D. in 1988. Dr. Hunter is a Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Hunter is involved with several large, population-based cohort studies, including the Nurses' Health Study (I and II), Health Professionals Follow-up Study, and the Physicians' Health Study. Among the goals of these large cohort studies is to investigate gene-environment interactions, including the impact of lifestyle factors, on disease causation. Disease endpoints of interest for some of these cohorts include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis. He is also involved in long running studies of nutritional influences on HIV progression in Tanzania.


  Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc.
Director, Center for Children's Health and the Environment,
Chair, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, and
Director, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Dr. Landrigan is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine and previously was Editor of Environmental Research. From 1988 to 1993, Dr. Landrigan chaired a National Academy of Sciences Committee whose final report—Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children—provided the principal intellectual foundation for the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996. From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Landrigan served on the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veteran's Illnesses. From 1997 to 1998, Dr. Landrigan served as Senior Advisor on Children's Health to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He was responsible at EPA for establishing a new Office of Children's Health Protection.

From 1970 to 1985, Dr. Landrigan served as a commissioned officer in the United States Public Health Service. He served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and then as a Medical Epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. In his years at the CDC, Dr. Landrigan participated in epidemiologic studies of measles and rubella; directed research and developed activities for the Global Smallpox Eradication Program; and established and directed the Environmental Hazards Branch of the Bureau of Epidemiology. While at CDC, Dr. Landrigan also served for one year as a field epidemiologist in El Salvador and for another year in northern Nigeria. From 1979 to 1985, as Director of the Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health in Cincinnati, he directed the U.S. national program in occupational epidemiology.

Dr. Landrigan obtained his medical degree from the Harvard Medical School in 1967. He interned at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital and completed a residency in Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. He obtained a Master of Science in occupational medicine and a Diploma of Industrial Health from the University of London.


  Leona D. Samson, Ph.D.
Ellison American Cancer Society Research Professor
Director, Center for Environmental Health Sciences
Professor of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Leona Samson received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from University College, London University, and received postdoctoral training in the United States at UCSF and UC Berkeley. After serving on the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health for eighteen years, she joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 as a Professor of Biological Engineering and the Director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Samson's research has focused on how cells, tissues and animals respond to environmental toxicants. Dr. Samson has been the recipient of numerous awards during her career, including the Burroughs Wellcome Toxicology Scholar Award (1993-98); the Charlotte Friend Women in Cancer Research Award (2000); the Environmental Mutagen Society Annual Award for Research Excellence (2001). In 2001, Dr. Samson was named the American Cancer Society Research Professor, one of the most prestigious awards given by the society. The ACS Professorship was subsequently underwritten by the Ellison Foundation of Massachusetts. In 2003, she was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, and she will become the President of the Environmental Mutagen Society in 2004.


  David Satterthwaite
Senior Fellow, Human Settlements Programme
International Institute for Environment and Development

In addition to his role as Senior Fellow of the Human Settlements Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), David Satterthwaite is Editor of the international journal Environment and Urbanization. He also teaches at the University of London and the London School of Economics (LSE). A development planner by training, he has been working at IIED on issues relating to housing and the urban environment since 1974. He has advised various agencies on urban environmental issues, including the Brundtland Commission, WHO, UNICEF, UNCHS, the Department for International Development and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and is currently serving as one of the lead authors in the chapter on human settlements for the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change.


  Paul Roux
Paul Roux is the CEO/founder of Roux Associates, Inc., a successful environmental consulting firm that ranked among the top 200 Environmental Consulting Firms in the July 2004 Engineering News Records. He has over 30 years of experience as a hydrogeologist and serves on the Board of Registration at the American Institute of Hydrology.


  Ira May
Ira May has worked as a geologist with the U.S. Army Environmental Center for more than twenty years. He has extensive experience with the clean up of hazardous waste sites at army facilities throughout the United States. Mr. May serves as a reviewer for the Groundwater magazine, a publication of the National Ground Water Association and is Vice Chairman of the Long Term Monitoring Committee of the Geotechnical Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers.


  Donald E. Jones
Donald Jones is the founder of Quality Environmental Solutions, Inc. and was previously Director of the IT Corporation national program for clients with hydrocarbon-related environmental problems and development of environmental management programs. He has served as an elected Board of Health member and was appointed as Right-To-Know and Hazardous Waste Coordinator in the State of Massachusetts. Mr. Jones currently serves on the Local Water Board, as technical consultant to the local Facilities Board and provides editorial review of technical papers and publications for the National Ground Water Association.


  Mukesh Khare
Dr. Mukesh Khare is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He is a recognized consultant to many Indian and international bodies like the Central Pollution Control Board, Oil & Natural Gas Commission, National Thermal Power Corporation, Nuclear Power Corporation, (India); Associates in Rural Development, Virginia, USA. He has published more than 30 research publications in international & national journals and conferences. Dr. Khare is listed in several prestigious biographical sources published by the American Biographical Institute, USA and International Biographical Center, UK.