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Richard Clapp, PhD, Boston University

Professor Clapp is an epidemiologist with over thirty years of experience in public health practice and consulting. He became a full-time faculty member in the Department of Environmental Health at Boston University in 1993. He has an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and a D.Sc. in Epidemiology from B.U. School of Public Health. He has worked in state and local health departments as director of a community health center, a statewide childhood lead poisoning prevention program, the Massachusetts Cancer Registry, and an environmental health consulting group at JSI Research and Training Institute. His research has focused on cancer in military veterans and in communities with toxic or radiation hazards. He is currently working on community-based research in New England and pesticide health effects research in South Africa. He co-teaches EH745, EH757, EH780 and EH806 and lectures in other courses at B.U. and other universities. He is co-chair of the steering committee of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and serves on several other professional advisory committees.

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Paul R. Epstein, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School

Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H. 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. Paul has worked in medical, teaching and research capacities in Africa, Asia and Latin America and, in 1993, coordinated an eight-part series on Health and Climate Change for the British medical journal, Lancet. He has worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the National Academy of Sciences, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to assess the health impacts of climate change and develop health applications of climate forecasting and remote sensing. Paul is coordinating the international project Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions, with support from Swiss Re and the United Nations Development Programme. This project involves scientists, UN agencies, NGOs and corporate/financial sector leaders in the assessment of the new risks and opportunities presented by a changing climate.