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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
- Fracking Revisited August 5, 2013
- Federal Chemical Policy Reform June 28, 2013
- Indoor Air Pollution May 30, 2013
- 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
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Michael McCally, MD PhD
Michael McCally is a Senior
Scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility. He is also Past-President
and former Executive Director of PSR.
Dr. McCally holds a BA in English Literature from Princeton
University, an MD from Western Reserve University, and a PhD in Physiology from
Ohio State University. He is the author of Life
Support: The Environment and Human Health (MIT, 2002). He is editor of five books and
author of more than eighty publications on environmental health and medical
topics.
He has held positions in academic medicine and hospital
administration including Professorships of Public Health and Medicine at George
Washington University, the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, the
University of Chicago, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Dr. McCally has been a leader in many public health
organizations including Physicians for a National Health Program, Physicians
for Human Rights and the American Public Health Association. He was Treasurer
of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War when it won the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.
Posts
The Abuse of Scientific Uncertainty, October 7, 2010