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Howard Frumkin

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Howard Frumkin is Dean, and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, at the University of Washington School of Public Health. He is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist, and epidemiologist. From 2005 to 2010 he served at the US CDC, as director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR), where he established programs in Climate Change and in Healthy Community Design, and as Special Assistant to the CDC Director for Climate Change and Health. From 1990 to 2005, he was Professor and Chair of Environmental and Occupational Health at Emory University.

Dr. Frumkin currently serves on the Boards of the Washington Global Health Alliance, the Bullitt Foundation, the Children and Nature Network, the Seattle Parks Foundation, and the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute, on the Yale Climate and Energy Institute External Advisory Board, on Procter & Gamble’s Sustainability Expert Advisory Panel, and on Advisory Boards for the National Sustainable Communities Coalition and the Partnership for Active Transportation. His research interests include public health aspects of the built environment, climate change, energy policy, and nature contact; toxic effects of chemicals; and environmental health policy. He is the author or co-author of over 200 scientific journal articles and chapters, and his books include Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Emerging Illness and Society, Environmental Health: From Global to Local , Safe and Healthy School Environments, Green Healthcare Institutions: Health, Environment, Economics, and Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability.

Dr. Frumkin received his A.B. from Brown University, his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. from Harvard.