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Melissa Perry
Anne Pringle
Joan Ruderman
John Spengler
Edward O. Wilson

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Directors

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Eric Chivian, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

Dr. Chivian shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for co-founding International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War... [more]


(Photo by Richard Howard, Winchester, MA)

 

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Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H.
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Paul R. Epstein, MD, MPH is Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, and is a medical doctor trained in tropical public health... [more]

(Photo by Liza Green, © 2007 President and Fellows of Harvard College on behalf of HMS Media Services, All Rights Reserved.)

 

Assistant Director
Kathleen Frith, M.S.

Kathleen Frith plays a leadership role in all the Center's activities, providing expertise on science communication and education and helping the Center achieve its mission to further understanding of human health and global environmental change connections...[more]

 

 

Faculty


Aaron Bernstein M.D., M.P.H.
Instructor in Medicine

He completed residency in the Boston Combined residency in Pediatrics of Harvard Medical School and the Boston University School of Medicine and has since joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston where he works as a pediatric hospitalist.... [more]

 

Daniel A. Goodenough Ph.D.
Takeda Professor of Cell Biology

Dan Goodenough is an internationally recognized cell biologist and is one of the most celebrated and popular teachers at Harvard Medical School... [more]

 

 

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Assistant Professor of Education

... She is a cognitive scientist whose work considers how people reason about causal complexity and how patterns of causal reasoning interact with our understanding and actions in relation to science and the world... [more]

 

 

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Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology

James Hanken is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Curator in Herpetology, and Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University... [more]

 


Niall Kirkwood, M.L.A.
Professor and Chair, Department Landscape Architecture

Niall G. Kirkwood is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 1992...[more]


Photo of James L. McCarthy Ph.D.James J. McCarthy Ph.D.
Alexander Aggasiz Professor of Biological Oceanography

His research interests relate to the regulation of plankton productivity in the sea, and in recent years have focused on regions that are strongly affected by seasonal and inter-annual variation in climate. ... [more]

 

Melissa Perry M.H.P., Sc.D.
Associate Professor of Occupational Epidemiology

Dr Perry came to the Occupational Health Program in 1997 bringing research interests in agricultural health and preventive intervention research.. ... [more]

 

 

 

Anne Pringle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

I am interested in the biology of species whose life histories and body plans seem very different from our own...[more]

 

 

Joan Ruderman Ph.D.
Marion V. Nelson Professor of Cell Biology

...More recently, her lab has started to use zebrafish to ask how hormonally active pollutants affect early embryonic development with the goal of trying to understand how such pollutants adversely affect reproductive success... [more]

 

 

John Spengler Ph.D.
Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation

...His professional career has focused on studying and understanding the effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution on human health... [more]

 

 

Edward O. Wilson Ph.D.
University Research Professor, Emeritus

...He is the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, On Human Nature (1978) and The Ants (1990, with Bert Hölldobler), as well as the recipient of many fellowships, honors, and awards, including the 1976 National Medal of Science... [more]