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Joel Schwartz Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Joel Schwartz is a Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also a faculty member in the Environmental Biostatistics Program at the School of Public Health. Dr. Schwartz received his B.A. (1969) and Ph.D. (1980) from Brandeis University. He is a member of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, and the American Thoracic Society. Dr. Schwartz served as a member of the Center for Disease Control’s Committee on Preventing Childhood Lead Poisoning from 1994 to 2002, and as a member of two National Research Council Committees (Committee on Assessing Lead Exposure in Critical Populations, Committee on Environmental Epidemiology).
Dr. Schwartz was a recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, and a World Congress Award from the International Union of Environmental Protection Associations. His expertise is in epidemiology, biostatistics, and cost benefit analysis. Dr. Schwartz’s major subject matters include air pollution and lead. His research has involved cross-sectional, time-series, cohort and panel studies of the acute and chronic health effects of air pollution, including both respiratory and cardiovascular endpoints, and he has a particular interest in questions of susceptibility. In the last two years, Dr. Schwartz received funding from the National Institutes for Health (NIH) for environmental biostatistics, for studies of aeroallergen exposure and asthma, for studies of lead, for a study of the association between particulate air pollution and heart attacks, and for a study of socioeconomic gradients in breast cancer. He has received funding from EPA as the PI for Epidemiology of the Harvard PM Research Center, and from the Health Effects Institute (HEI) for the APHENA project, which aims to combine North American and European time series analyses of air pollution, morbidity, and mortality.
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