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About
Welcome to PSR's Environmental Health Policy
Institute, where we ask questions -- then we ask the experts to
answer them. Join us as physicians, health professionals,
and environmental health experts share their ideas, inspiration, and
analysis about toxic chemicals and environmental health policy.
Topics
- State Toxics Policy April 30, 2013
- Obesogens March 20, 2013
- Clean Energy December 12, 2012
- Radioactivity and Health October 31, 2012
- How Effective Is the EPA? September 24, 2012
- Particulate Matter August 22, 2012
- Hydraulic Fracturing June 18, 2012
- The Future of Toxics Advocacy May 18, 2012
- Toxics and brain development April 9, 2012
- Coal Ash March 2, 2012
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Andrew S. Kanter, MD MPH
Andrew S. Kanter, MD MPH is president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and has been involved with PSR since 1982 when he started a chapter at UCLA. In 1985, he was appointed as the first full-time Medical Student Liaison to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Dr. Kanter is currently director of Health Information Systems/Medical Informatics for the Millennium Villages Project for the Earth Institute at Columbia University as well as an Assistant Professor for Clinical Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia. He travels globally and has firsthand experience of the effects of militarism on development and the environment.
Posts
Evacuation in Case of Nuclear Reactor Accident: Feasible?, October 31, 2012