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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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Gina M. Solomon, MD MPH
Gina Solomon is a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) where she is also the Director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program and the Associate Director of the UCSF Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit. Her work has included over 40 scientific papers, book chapters, and reports on air pollution, pesticides, global warming, and other environmental and occupational threats to health. Dr. Solomon serves on the National Toxicology Program’s Board of Scientific Counselors, a National Academy of Sciences committee on Exposure Assessment in the 21st Century, and the California Biomonitoring Scientific Guidance Panel. Dr. Solomon attended college at Brown University, medical school at Yale, and did her postgraduate training in internal medicine, public health, and occupational and environmental medicine at Harvard.
Posts
The Importance of the Personal, July 28, 2011
The future of exposure science: New opportunities from new tools, May 17, 2012