Richard J Jackson, M.D., is a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California at Los Angeles. As a pediatrician, he has served in many leadership positions in both environmental health and infectious disease with the California Health Department, including the highest as the State Health Officer. For nine years he was Director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and received the Presidential Distinguished Service award. In 2011, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has received the Breast Cancer Fund’s Hero Award, as well as Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Public Health Law Association, and from the New Partners for Smart Growth. In 2012, he received the John Heinz Award for national Leadership in the Environment. Dr. Jackson lectures and speaks on many issues, particularly those related to built environment and health. He co-authored two Island Press Books: Urban Sprawl and Public Health in 2004 and Making Healthy Places in 2011. He is host of a 2012 public television series Designing Healthy Communities which links to the J Wiley & Sons book by the same name. He is an elected honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, as well as the American Institute of Architects. In March 2015.
Evelyn C. Granieri, M.D, MPH, MSEd, is the Chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Aging. at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Granieri has spent the past 23 years, after completing her internal medicine training and fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at Northwestern University, focusing her career on medical education, She received her MPH at the University of Pittsburgh and her MSEd at USC, at which she taught medical education. Dr. Granieri has designed and implemented palliative medicine curricula and interdisciplinary training within the Veterans Administration system and in multiple other academic institutions. . She teaches locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, and has developed curricula for geriatrics fellowships internationally. She holds leadership positions within the AAMC, the American Geriatrics Society and is a member of the NBMA Advisory Committee for Medical School Programs. Dr. Granieri has been nationally recognized for her contribution to geriatric medical education and has been the recipient of numerous caring, teaching and mentoring awards.
Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc., the Ethel H. Wise Professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, is a pediatrician and epidemiologist. He has been a member of the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 1985 and Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine from 1990-2014. He was named Dean of Global Health in 2010 and has been the Director of the Children Environmental Health Center since its inception. Dr. Landrigan graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1967 and served for 15 years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and medical epidemiologist at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). In 1987, Dr. Landrigan was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine ad Editor of Environmental Research and has published more than 500 scientific papers and five books including a recent co-edited textbook Children’s Environmental Health. He has chaired committees at the National Academy of Sciences on Environmental Neurotoxicity and on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children and is known for his many decades of work protecting children against environmental treats to health. He continues to be deeply committed to translating research into strategies for health protection and disease prevention.