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Ellen Silbergeld, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor
Based in Bologna, Italy
Zanolini 15
Background and Education
Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Research; a member of scientific advisory councils for the EPA, PAHO, CDC, Department of Energy and NIH-NIEHS; a consultant to the World Bank, WHO, UNEP, OSHA and ILO; directs a Fogarty Training Program in NonCommunicable Diseases; was previously a postdoctoral fellow in environmental health sciences at Johns Hopkins University, NIH staff fellow, senior scientist at Environmental Defense and professor at the University of Maryland Medical School; has also served as scientific advisor to NTP-NIH, CDC, EPA, DOE, OSHA, the states of Maryland and New York, World Bank, ILO, UNEP and PAHO; has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Kennedy, Rockefeller, Danforth and Woodrow Wilson Foundations; also a recipient of the Barsky Award, MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship and the Society of Toxicology Lifetime Achievement Award; Ph.D., geography and environmental engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Selected publications include "Neurologic Symptoms Associated with Raising Poultry and Swine among Participants in the Agricultural Health Study," co-author, in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (2011); "Predictive Models for Nanotoxicology," co-author, in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (2011); "One Reservoir: Redefining the Community Origins of Antimicrobial Resistant Infections," co-author, in Medical Clinics of North America (2008)
- Topics
- Biotechnology and Information Technology Policy
- Environmental Issues