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Howard Frumkin, MD,
MPH, DrPH
Director, National Center
for Environmental Health, Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention |
Howard Frumkin, MD, MPH, DrPH, serves as
director of the National Center for Environmental Health,
ATSDR. NCEH/ATSDR works to maintain and improve the health
of the American people by promoting a healthy environment
and by preventing premature death and avoidable illness and
disability caused by toxic substances and other
environmental hazards.
Before joining the CDC in September 2005, he
was professor and chair of the Department of Environmental and
Occupational Health at the Emory University Rollins School of
Public Health, and professor of medicine at Emory Medical
School, in Atlanta. At Emory, he founded and directed the
Environmental and Occupational Medicine Consultation Clinic, the
Occupational Medicine Residency training program, and the
Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit. Doctor
Frumkin is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine
specialist, and epidemiologist.
He previously served on the board of
directors of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), where
he co-chaired the Environment Committee; as president of the
Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC); as
chair of the Science Board of the American Public Health
Association (APHA); as a member of EPA's Children's Health
Protection Advisory Committee, where he chaired the Smart Growth
and Climate Change work groups; and on the National Toxicology
Program Board of Scientific Counselors.
He currently serves on the Institute of
Medicine Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research,
and Medicine. In Georgia, he was a member of the state's
Hazardous Waste Management Authority, the Department of
Agriculture Pesticide Advisory Committee, and the Pollution
Prevention Assistance Division Partnership Program Advisory
Committee, and is a graduate of the Institute for Georgia
Environmental Leadership.
In Georgia's Clean Air Campaign, he served
on the board and chaired the Health/Technical Committee. He was
named Environmental Professional of the Year by the Georgia
Environmental Council in 2004. He has served as a consultant to
several corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Southwire,
Georgia Power, and Polaroid, and to several unions, including
the Chemical Workers Association and the Utility Workers Union.
He is the author or co-author of over 100
scientific journal articles and chapters, and has written
numerous books. Dr. Frumkin received his BA from Brown
University, his MD from the University of Pennsylvania, his MPH
and DrPH from Harvard, his internal medicine training at the
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Cambridge
Hospital, and his occupational medicine training at Harvard. He
is board-certified in both internal medicine and occupational
medicine, and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians
and the American College of Occupational and Environmental
Medicine. |
