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EHS: assessing exposure and health impacts; protecting the community and workplace.
Richard Joseph Jackson
Adjunct Professor
M.D. University of California, San Francisco, 1973
M.P.H. University of California, Berkeley, 1979
Richard Jackson  
Email:
dickjackson@berkeley.edu
 
Website:
None
 
Tel:
(510) 642-4421
 
Fax:
(510) 642-5815
 
Office:
783 University Hall
 

Mailing Address:
School of Public Health
University of California
50 University Hall #7360
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
Education:
M.D. University of California, San Francisco, 1973
M.P.H. University of California, Berkeley, 1979
M.M.S. Rutgers Medical School, 1971
A.B. St. Peter's College, 1969

Teaching
PH 298 Public Health and the Built Environment
 

Research
Health policy as it is shaped by housing, transportation, agricultural, environmental, economic policy. Specific effects of toxic chemicals on health, especially that of children. Biomonitoring of chemical body burdens and health. Pesticides and human health.
 

Recent Publications
Jackson RJ. The impact of the built environment on health: an emerging field. Am J Public Health. 2003 Sep;93(9):1382-4. [abstract]
 
Jackson RJ. Environment meets health, again. Science. 2007 Mar 9;315(5817):1337. [abstract]
 
Jackson RJ, DeLozier DM, Gerasimov G, Borisova O, Garbe PL, Goultchenko L, Shakarishvili G, Hollowell JG, Miller DT. Chernobyl and iodine deficiency in the Russian Federation: an environmental disaster leading to a public health opportunity. J Public Health Policy. 2002;23(4):453-70. [abstract]
 
Grosse SD, Matte TD, Schwartz J, Jackson RJ. Economic gains resulting from the reduction in children's exposure to lead in the United States. Environ Health Perspect. 2002 Jun;110(6):563-9. [abstract]
 
Blindauer KM, Jackson RJ, McGeehin M; Pertowski C, Rubin C. Environmental pesticide illness and injury: the need for a national surveillance system. J Environ Health. 1999 Jun;61(10):9-14. [abstract]
 
Frumkin H, Frank L, Jackson RJ. Urban sprawl and public health: designing, planning, and building for healthy communities. Washington DC: Island Press, 2004. [abstract]
 

Other Activities
Institute of Medicine: National Academy of Sciences. Roundtable on Environmental Health, Washington DC
 
American Institute of Architects (AIA) Board of Directors, Washington DC, 2005 to present
 
Children's Environmental Health Network Board of Directors, Washington DC, 2005 to present
 
Environmental Media Services Advisory Board, Washington DC, 2005 to present
 
University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication Norman Lear Center, Los Angeles, 2004 to present