Support strong nationwide action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
Health Justice
Dr. Lynn Goldman
As Dean of SPHHS, Dr. Goldman’s responsibilities are informed by her broad and deep public policy and academic experience. She joined the school in August 2010 from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she had been Professor of Environmental Health Sciences since July 2000. In that capacity, she served as principal investigator of the National Children’s Study Center at Hopkins. That ambitious research initiative, part of an DHHS study that follows 100,000 children from birth to age 21, is examining the interaction of numerous environmental influences – including biological, chemical, and social factors, genetics, culture and family, and geography – on children’s health. Dr. Goldman was also the co-PI of the National Study Center for Preparedness and Critical Event Response, which supports the mission of the Department of Homeland Security through research and educational initiatives designed to build the science of preparedness. Prior to joining Hopkins, Dr. Goldman was Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1993 to 1998 under President Bill Clinton. Under her watch, the EPA overhauled the nation’s pesticide laws, expanded right-to-know requirements for toxin release, reached consensus on an approach to testing chemicals with endocrine-disrupting potential, developed standards to implement lead screening legislation, and promoted children’s health and global chemical safety. Dr. Goldman also worked in environmental health for the California Department of Public Health Services. Among other responsibilities, she managed a statewide environmental epidemiology program that focused on childhood lead poisoning, birth defects, and occupational health. Among many other accolades, Dean Goldman was also recently awarded one of ten Heinz Awards, given to innovators in environmental health, for her work in protecting the public from toxic chemicals.
Dean Goldman is a member of the Institute of Medicine, where she has chaired or served on committees focused on secondhand smoke, public health preparedness, environmental health, and health sciences policy. She is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Environmental Sciences and Toxicology.
Bachelor of Science (Conservation of Natural Resources), University of California at Berkeley, 1976 Master of Science (Health and Medical Science), University of California at Berkeley, Health and Medical Sciences, 1979 Master of Public Health (Epidemiology), Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1981 Doctor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1981
Dr. Peter Wilk
Peter Wilk, MD is a recognized expert on nuclear disarmament and has been active for the past 28 years in public health advocacy organizations and medical organizations concerned with preventing nuclear war and addressing other threats to global survival. He was named Executive Director of PSR in February 2009. He has a long association with PSR, having served as a PSR Board member for many years and as PSR’s President in 1995 and 2000. As executive director, Dr. Wilk leads the largest physician-led organization in the United States working to address the gravest threats to human health and survival.
Dr. Wilk has held leadership positions with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), acting as the Co-Vice President for North America from 1996 to 2000 and Speaker of the International Council from 2004 to 2008. He served as Congress Chair and led in organizing the 2002 joint PSR & IPPNW “Summit for Survival” World Congress in Washington, DC. He also served as the President of PSR/Maine from 1983 to 1994 and from 1998 to 2008.
In Maine, Dr. Wilk developed and led a two-year campaign that included public education, mobilizing activists, letter-writing, op-eds, and lobbying that resulted in Senator Susan Collins’ decision to oppose the nuclear bunker buster and, ultimately, in the cancellation of that program.
As a leader in the effort to increase physician involvement in environment and security issues, Dr. Wilk has had a major part in organizing various statewide conferences, the most recent of which include a series of three environmental health conferences over the past six years titled Making the Connection I, II, and III. Prior Maine conferences he led in organizing included The Road to Nuclear Abolition, Achieving Global Energy Security and First Monday 2000; Working Together to Reduce Gun Violence. He is the recipient of the 1988 PSR Broad Street Pump Award, 1993 Seeds of Peace Award, Dana Hanley Memorial Trust Leadership Award and the 2005 Distinguished Service Award from the American Lung Association of Maine.
Environmental Justice
Jaccqui Patterson
Jacqueline Patterson is the Director of the Climate Justice Initiative at the NAACP. Most recently a global women’s rights consultant, Jacqui Patterson has enjoyed a fulfilling career working in the capacities of researcher, program manager, coordinator, advocate and activist working on women‘s rights, violence against women, HIV&AIDS, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice. Since 2007 Patterson has served as coordinator for an organization she co-founded, Women of Color United. Previously, Patterson served as a Senior Women’s Rights Policy Analyst for ActionAid where she ensured the integration of a women’s rights lens for the issues of food rights, macroeconomics, and climate change as well as the intersection of violence against women and HIV&AIDS. Prior to this she served as Assistant Vice-President of HIV/AIDS Programs for Interchurch Medical Assistance, Inc. providing management and technical assistance to medical facilities and programs in 23 countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Patterson served as the Outreach Project Associate for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, as policy analyst for Baltimore City Healthy Start; and Research coordinator for Johns Hopkins University. A returned U.S. Peace Corps Jamaica volunteer, Patterson holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University. She currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Congressional Black Caucus Fellows Alumni Network, The Leadership Circle of the Gender Justice Working Group of the US Social Forum, Co-Founder and Coordinator for Women of Color United, the Advisory Committee for The Grandmothers’ Project, the Steering Committee of ATHENA Network, as well as serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute of the Black World.
Peace and Security
Dr. Ira Helfand
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