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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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Richard Clapp, DSc MPH
Richard Clapp is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Health,
Boston University School of Public Health and Adjunct Professor at U. of Mass.-
Lowell. Professor Clapp is an epidemiologist with over forty years of
experience in public health practice, research, teaching and consulting. He has
an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and a DSc in Epidemiology from
Boston University School of Public Health. He served as the founding Director
of the Massachusetts Cancer Registry from 1980-1989. Professor Clapp was
formerly the Co-Chair of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
and an Associate Editor of Environmental Health Perspectives. His research has
included studies of cancer around nuclear facilities, in workers and military
veterans, and in communities with toxic hazards.
Posts
Environmental and Occupational Toxicants and Cancer, June 16, 2011
“A Professional Responsibility”: Advocacy and the Healthcare Professional, July 28, 2011