Board of Directors

Susan S. Addiss, MPH, MUrS
Past Commissioner of Health for the State of Connecticut; Past President of the American Public Health Association; Past member of the Pew Environmental Health Commission; Past Vice-Chair, Connecticut Health Foundation Board; Past President, CT Association of Directors of Health; Vice-Chair, East Shore District Health Department Board.

Nancy O. Alderman, MES
President of Environment and Human Health, Inc.; Past member of the Governor's Pollution Prevention Task Force; Past member of the National Board of Environmental Defense Fund; Recipient of the CT Bar Association, Environmental Law Section's, Clyde Fisher Award, given in recognition of significant contributions to the preservation of environmental quality through work in the fields of environmental law, environmental protection or environmental planning, and the New England Public Health Association's Robert C. Huestis/Eric Mood Award given to individuals for outstanding contributions to public health in the environmental health area.

Gaboury Benoit, PhD
The Grinstein Professor of Environmental Chemistry at Yale University's School of the Environment; Former Director of the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology; Published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles on heavy metals and nonpoint source pollution; Co-author of the books The Land and Natural Development (L.A.N.D.) Code (Wiley) and New Strategies for America's Watersheds (National Academy Press).

D. Barry Boyd, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Oncologist at Greenwich Hospital and Affiliate Member of the Yale Cancer Center. Research areas include environmental risk factors for cancer as well as cancer etiology, including nutrition and the role of insulin and IGF in malignancy. Dr. Boyd is the Founder and Director of Integrative Medicine at Greenwich Hospital — Yale Health System.

David R. Brown, ScD
Public Health Toxicologist and Director of Public Health Toxicology for Environment and Human Health, Inc.; Past Chief of Environmental Epidemiology and Occupational Health at Connecticut's Department of Health; Past Deputy Director of the Public Health Practice Group of ATSDR at the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

Thomas F. Harrison, Esq.
Connecticut Environmental Lawyer; Past Assistant Attorney General in the New York State's Attorney General's office; Past Regional Counsel in the largest U.S. EPA Office, Region 5; Past Senior Corporate Council to the BFGoodrich Company; Past Partner at the Hartford law firm of Day Pitney LLP; Served on Connecticut's Board of Contracting Standards and Review; Served on the CT Council of Environmental Quality and was the Past Chairman of the Environmental Section of the CT Bar Association.

Pinar H. Kodaman, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Yale University School of Medicine; Director of the Early Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Program at the Yale Fertility Center.

Barbara S. Miller, Retired Attorney
Former partner at the Southport, Connecticut law firm of Brody Wilkinson PC; Past member of the Executive Committee of the Environmental Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association; Member, Board of Directors of the Connecticut Zoological Society, Inc.; Past Vice-President of the Connecticut Fund for the Environment, Inc.; Past Chair of the Connecticut Audubon Society Coastal Center Board of Directors.

William Petit, Jr., MD.
Board certified in diabetes, metabolism and endocrinology; Former Director of the Joslin Diabetes Center and Director of clinical research at The Hospital of Central Connecticut; Past President of the Hartford County Medical Association and Past Council Chair of the Connecticut State Medical Society; Former State Representative and ranking member of the CT Public Health Committee, Energy & Technology, and Appropriations committees; Past Plainville Director of Public Health.

Sarah Schellhorn, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine Oncology with a focus on Breast Medical Oncology, Smilow Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine. Ambulatory Floor Chief, Breast and Gynecologic Oncology, Smilow Cancer Hospital. Recipient of many awards including the Clifton Howe Award given for clinical excellence to a medical oncology fellow.

Alan J. Siniscalchi, MPH, MS.
President, Connecticut Association of Conservation and Inland Wetlands Commissions, Inc. (CACIWC); Coordinated programs in environmental toxicology & epidemiology, radiological health, surveillance for lead, influenza, & bioterrorism with the Connecticut Department of Public Health. Chairman, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Public Health Emergency Preparedness Subcommittee; former member, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies. Inducted into the Yale University Public Health Alumni Public Service Honor Roll.

Hugh S. Taylor, MD
Anita O'Keeffe Young Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

John P. Wargo, PhD
Tweedy Ordway Professor of Environmental Health and Politics, Yale University's School of the Environment. Author of Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health published by Yale Press. The book won the Independent Publishers Award of Gold Medal in the field of "environment, ecology, and nature" for 2010. It also won the 2010 Connecticut Book Award in non-fiction. It was chosen as one of Scientific American's favorite books for 2009. Also author of Our Children's Toxic Legacy, which won the American Association Publisher's competition as best scholarly and professional book in an area of government and political science in 1997.

Jason White, PhD
Director of The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station; Clinical Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health; elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering; Adjunct Professor in the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; member of the European Science Foundation College of Experts; Commissioned Official of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA); and former Visiting Scientist at the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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David Benoit: IT and digital management

Jane M. Bradley, MALS: Editing and content management

 

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Environment and Human Health, Inc. (EHHI) is a ten-member, science-based non-profit organization composed of physicians, public health professionals and policy experts dedicated to protecting human health from environmental harms through research, education and the promotion of sound public policies.

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