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Chair of Environmental Health Sciences
Richard J. Jackson has done extensive work in the impact of the
environment on health, particularly relating to children. Dr. Jackson
chaired the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental
Health. He did extensive work on pesticides in California, and has
also focused on epidemiology, infectious diseases and toxicology. Over
the past decade much of his work has focused on how the 'built
environment' including how architecture and urban planning affect
health. He recently served on the Board of Directors of the American
Institute of Architects and has written and spoken extensively in the
above areas. Currently, Dr. Jackson has been working on policy analyses of
environmental impacts on health ranging from toxicology, chemical body
burdens, terrorism, sustainability, climate change, urban design and
architecture. In addition, he is developing policy analyses in related
areas, such as how farm, education, housing, and transportation
policies affect health.
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While in California he helped establish the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program and state and national laws to reduce risks from pesticides, especially to farm workers and to children. While at CDC he established the national asthma epidemiology and control program, oversaw the childhood lead poisoning prevention program, and instituted the federal effort to “biomonitor” chemical levels in the US population. In the late 1990s he was the CDC leader in establishing the US National Pharmaceutical Stockpile to prepare for terrorism and other disasters—which was activated on September 11, 2001. He has received the Breast Cancer Fund’s Hero Award, as well as Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Public Health Law Association, and the New Partners for Smart Growth.
Dick 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 published in August, 2011. He will host a 2012 public television special Designing Healthy Communities which links to a separate book by the same name published by J Wiley & Sons in October, 2011. He has served on many environmental and health boards, as well as the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects. He was the 2005 UCLA SPH commencement speaker:
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/staging/finalsite/students_keynote.html
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Designing Healthy Communities- 4 part series .
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Designing Healthy Communities: NewPublicHealth Q&A with Richard Jackson Jan 27, 2012.
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America's Health Threat: Poor Urban Design_Article in Chronicle of Higher Education_January 22, 2012.
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Creating Healthy Spaces talk on September 27, 2011 .
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Richard J Jackson MD MPH with Stacy Sinclair Designing Healthy Communities.
2011; Companion Book to Public Broadcast series(ISBN 978-1-118-03366-1):
230 pages.
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Jackson RJ, Malloy TF Environmental public health law: three pillars..
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
2011; 39 Suppl 1:
34-6.
Rahman T,Cushing RA, Jackson RJ Contributions of built environment to childhood obesity..
The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York.
2011; 78(1):
49-57.
Jackson RJ, Minjares R, Naumoff KS, Patel BS, Martin LK Agriculture Policy is Health Policy.
Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition
2009; 4(3):
393-408.
Botchwey ND, Hobson SE, Dannenberg AL, Mumford KG, Contant CK, McMillan TE, Jackson RJ, Lopez R, Winkle C A model curriculum for a course on the built environment and public health: training for an interdisciplinary workforce..
American journal of preventive medicine.
2009; 36(2 Suppl):
S63-71.
Jackson RJ, Tester J Environment shapes health, including children's mental health..
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
2008; 47(2):
129-31.
Jackson Richard J Environment meets health, again..
Science (New York, N.Y.).
2007; 315(5817):
1337.
Jackson RJ Commentary on active living research..
American journal of preventive medicine.
2005; 28(2 Suppl 2):
218-9.
Dannenberg AL, Jackson RJ, Frumkin H, Schieber RA, Pratt M, Kochtitzky C, Tilson HH The impact of community design and land-use choices on public health: a scientific research agenda..
American journal of public health.
2003; 93(9):
1500-8.
Jackson RJ The impact of the built environment on health: an emerging field..
American journal of public health.
2003; 93(9):
1382-4.
Grosse SD, Matte TD, Schwartz J, Jackson RJ Economic gains resulting from the reduction in children's exposure to lead in the United States..
Environmental health perspectives.
2002; 110(6):
563-9.
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..
Journal of public health policy.
2002; 23(4):
453-70.
Cummins SK, Jackson RJ The built environment and children's health..
Pediatric clinics of North America.
2001; 48(5):
1241-52, x.
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