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Work Phone Number:
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Work Email Address: dickjackson@ucla.edu
Education: M.D., Medicine,
Unviersity of California, San Francisco
Education: M.P.H., Public Health - Epidemiology,
Unversity of California, Berkeley
Academic Experience: Internship, Pediatrics,
Unviersity of California, San Francisco
Academic Experience: Postdoctoral, FAAP,
American Academy of Pediatrics
Academic Experience: Postdoctoral, Preventive Medicine,
American Board of Preventive Medicine
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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 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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In California his work led to the establishment of the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program and state and national laws. These helped reduce risk from dangerous pesticides, especially for farm workers and children. He served in the highest California Public Health position where he advanced the states disease preparedness
efforts and public health effort to reverse the obesity epidemic. He was instrumental in the re-creation of the California Department of Public Health, separated from the insurance functions from the former Department of Health Services. He served 15 years at the CDC where he
established the National Asthma Epidemiology and Control Program and advanced the childhood lead poisoning prevention program. He instituted the current federal effort to “biomonitor” chemical levels in the US population. He was the US lead under several US government efforts around health and environment in Russia, including radiation threats. 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. In 2006 he received the Breast Cancer Fund’s Hero Award and at the UC Berkeley
2007 Commencement, the School of Public Health graduate students recognized him as the Distinguished Teacher and Mentor of the Year.
Dr. Jackson co-authored Urban Sprawl and Public Health, a 2004 book from Island Press. He has also served on many environmental and health committees. He was the 2005 UCLA SPH commencement speaker: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/staging/finalsite/students_keynote.html
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Committee on Environmental Health; June Tester and Richard Jackson as consultants The Built Environment: Designing Communities to Promote Physical Activity in Children.
Pediatrics.
2009; 123:
1591-1598.
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Jackson, Richard J. and June Tester. Environment Shapes Health - Including Children's Mental Health.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
2008; 47(2):
129-131.
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Jackson, Richard J., Kyra Naumoff Shields. Preparing the US Health Community for Climate Change.
Annual Reviews of Public Health.
2008; 29:
57-73.
Jackson, Richard J. Environment Meets Health, Again?.
Science.
2007; 315:
1337.
Jackson, Richard J. Commentary on Active Living Research.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
2005; 28(2):
218-219.
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Richard J Jackson UCLA SPH 2005 Commencement Speech.
Not published but of interest to incoming students.
2005;
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Barr DB, Bravo R, Weerasekera G, Caltabiano LM, Whitehead RD, Olsson AO, Caudill SP, Schober SE, Pirkle JF, Sampson EJ, Jackson RJ, Needham LL. Concentrations of Dialkylphosphate M etabolites of Organophosphorus Pesticides in the US Population .
Environmental Health Perspectives.
2004; 112(2):
186-200.
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):
1500-1508.
Jackson, Richard J. The Impact of the Built Environment on Health: An Emerging Field.
American Journal of Public Health.
2003; 93(9):
1382-1384.
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):
453-470.
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(June):
563-569.
Jackson R, Harp T, Wright T. Land Use Planning: Why Public Health Must Be Involved.
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
2002; Volume 30(3):
70-74.
Jackson R, Locke P, Pirkle J, Thompson FE, Sussman D. Will Biomonitoring Change How We Regulate Toxic Chemicals?.
The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
2002; 30(3):
177-183..
Cummins SK, Jackson RJ., In: Paulson J, ed. The Built Environment and Children's Health.
The Pediatric Clinics of North America.
2001;
1241-1252.
Blount BC, Silva MJ, Caudill SP, Needham LL, Pirkle JL,Sampson EJ, Lucier GW, Jackson RJ, Brock JW. Levels of Seven Urinary Phthalate Metabolites in a Human Reference Population.
Environmental Health Perspectives..
2000; 108:
979-982.
Blindauer KM, Jackson RJ, McGeehin M, Pertowski C, Rubin C. Environmental Pesticide Illness and Injury: The Need for a National Surveillance System.
Journal of Environmental Health.
1999; 61(10):
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Sinks T & Jackson RJ. International study finds breast milk free of significant lead contamination.
Environmental Health Perspectives.
1999; 107:
A58-A59.
Shaw GM, Wasserman CR, O’Malley CD, Nelson V, Jackson RJ. Maternal Pesticide Exposure from Multiple Sources and Selected Congenital Anomalies.
Epidemiology.
1999; 10(1):
60-66.
Jackson, Richard J. Commentary on "The Exposure of Children to Lead" by J. Julian Chisholm and Harold E. Harrison, Pediatrics, 1956:18;943-958.
Pediatrics..
1998; 102:
227-229.
Jackson, Richard J. Habitat and Health: The Role of Environmental Factors in the Health of Urban Populations.
Journal of Urban Health.
1998; 75(2):
258-262.
Leonard J. Paulozzi, J. David Erickson, and Richard J. Jackson. Hypospadias Trends in Two US Surveillance Systems.
Pediatrics.
1997; 100(5):
831-834.
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UCLA School of Public Health
Environmental Health Sciences Dept.
BOX 951772,
56-070B CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES
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LOS ANGELES, CA 90095
UNITED STATES
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Work Phone Number:
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Work Email Address: dickjackson@ucla.edu
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