Asa Bradman
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
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Asa Bradman ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR |
Dr. Asa Bradman is an environmental health scientist who focuses on environmental exposures to pregnant women and young children. In 1997, he helped create, and is now Associate Director of, the Center for Children's Environmental Health Research in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. In this capacity he helps direct multiple biomonitoring and exposure studies investigating the relationship of environmental exposures and health in children living in the Salinas Valley, California. These studies have focused on persistent and non-persistent pesticides, lead, PCB's, PBDE's, and allergens. Between 1987 and 1998, Dr. Bradman participated in studies of lead exposure, iron deficiency, pesticide exposure, and childhood cancer with the California Department of Health Services. He has served on a number of advisory bodies, including the Science Advisory Council for the National Center for Healthy Homes, California Childcare Health Program Advisory Committee, Silent Spring Institute California Advisory Board, and the Exposures to Chemical Agents Working Group for the National Children's Study. |