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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
- The Future of Toxics Advocacy May 18, 2012
- Toxics and brain development April 9, 2012
- Coal Ash March 2, 2012
- Prenatal Exposures February 2, 2012
- Public Health and the Safe Chemicals Act January 5, 2012
- Toxics tools and resources December 5, 2011
- Health hazards of fragrances November 3, 2011
- Environmental justice October 6, 2011
- Farmworkers and pesticides August 24, 2011
- Health professional advocacy July 28, 2011
- Cancer and toxic chemicals June 16, 2011
- Air pollution April 14, 2011
- Food and toxics February 24, 2011
- From climate science to climate policy January 13, 2011
- Technology and toxics December 15, 2010
- Emerging environmental hazards November 4, 2010
- Scientific uncertainty in policy choices October 7, 2010
- Chemicals management policy September 1, 2010
Jerome A. Paulson, MD FAAP
Jerome A.
Paulson, MD is Professor of Pediatrics at the George
Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
and Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health at the GW School of
Public Health & Health Services. He is the Medical Director for National
& Global Affairs of the Child Health Advocacy Institute at the
Children’s National Medical Center. Dr. Paulson is the director of
the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment
and of the Environmental Health Track at the George Washington University
School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Dr.
Paulson is the chairperson of the executive committee of the Council on
Environmental Health at the American Academy of Pediatrics.
He also serves on the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee for the
US Environmental Protection Agency. He is a long-standing member of PSR and a
former member of its environmental health committee.
Posts
Prenatal Exposures: A continuum of vulnerability to environmental toxicants, February 2, 2012