Ellen SilbergeldProfessor, Bloomberg School of Public Health; Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.
Part of the Energy, Resources and Environment Seminar SeriesTrained at Johns Hopkins in geography and environmental engineering (Ph.D. '72) and postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Health Sciences ('72-75). NIH staff fellowship followed by senior scientist position at Environmental Defense and professorship at University of Maryland Medical School. Served as scientific adviser to NTP-NIH, CDC, EPA, DOE, OSHA, states of Maryland and New York, World Bank, ILO, UNEP, and PAHO. My research and professional activities bridge science and public policy, with a focus on the incorporation of mechanistic toxicology into environmental and occupational health policy. Areas of current focus include: cardiovascular risks of arsenic, lead, and cadmium; immunotoxicity of mercury compounds; health and environmental impacts of industrial food animal production. These projects include epidemiological studies and mechanistic research on gene:environment interactions and movement of pathogens in the environment. Some of this research is conducted internationally (mercury studies in the Amazon; lead/cadmium/arsenic studies in Mexico; mining and development in Mongolia; zoonotic diseases in Thailand and the Netherlands). Directs a Fogarty Training Program in NonCommunicable Diseases, which is a collaboration between Hopkins and the School of Public Health of Mongolia.
Honors and Awards:
Fellowships from Fulbright, Kennedy, Rockefeller, Danforth, Woodrow Wilson Foundations. Phi Beta Kappa, Vassar College. Barsky Award, Amer Public Health Assn. MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellow. Lifetime Achievement Award, Society of Toxicology Metals Section. Editor in Chief:
Environmental Research. Member, scientific advisory councils for EPA, PAHO, CDC, Department of Energy, NIH-NIEHS. Consultant, World Bank, WHO, UNEP, OSHA, and ILO.
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