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Speaker BiographiesSenator Barbara Boxer
A forceful advocate for families, children, consumers, the environment, and her State of California, Barbara Boxer became a United States Senator in January 1993 after 10 years of service in the House of Representatives. Elected to a third term in 2004, she received more than 6.9 million votes, the highest total for any Senate candidate in American history.A national leader on environmental protection, Senator Boxer is the first woman to Chair the U.S. Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). On the Committee, she advocates forcefully for clean air and water, with a particular focus on the fight against global warming. She also Chairs EPW’s Subcommittee on Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, and Children’s Health Protection. In addition to her work on the EPW Committee, Senator Boxer has won numerous awards for her efforts to create a cleaner, healthier environment. She authored the amendment to the Safe Drinking Water Act ensuring that drinking water standards are set to protect children and other vulnerable populations. She has been a leader in the fight to remove arsenic from drinking water, block oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge and along California's coast, stop the use of human subjects in pesticide testing, and revitalize the Superfund by making polluters not taxpayers pay to clean up the toxic waste they leave behind. Dr. J.R. DeShazo 
J.R. DeShazo is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Social
Research at the University of California at Los Angeles. (B.A., College of William
and Mary, M.Sc., Oxford University, Rhodes Scholar; Ph.D., Harvard University) He
was a faculty associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development
(1997-2000) and is currently Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Studies at UCLA.Dr. Hilary Godwin 
Dr. Hilary Godwin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental
Health Sciences. Dr. Godwin recently joined the UCLA School of Public Health
faculty and was previously at Northwestern University where she served on
the Department of Chemistry faculty, most recently as Chair. Dr. Godwin's current research focuses on the basic chemical and biological mechanisms by which toxic metal ions affect neurological signaling and development. Lauded for her work, Dr. Godwin is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. Additional awards include receipt of the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Toxicology New Investigator Award. Dr. Godwin received her PhD in Physical Chemistry from Stanford. She conducted postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Tord Kjellstrom  Dr. Tord Kjellstrom, MD, MEng, PHD, is professor at the National Institute of Public Health in Stockholm Sweden. In addition he is a visiting fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University in Canberra and is an Honorary Fellow at the Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Science in New Zealand. Dr. Kjellstrom works as an independent environmental and occupational health consultant for New Zealand government agencies and the World Health Organization (WHO) where he was an environmental epidemiologist and later became Director of Global and Integrated Health. Dr. Kjellstrom has authored more than 300 reports on different topics, including the direct effects of climate on health, the health aspects of air pollution and urbanization. He has worked since 1970 as a teacher and researcher in epidemiology, environmental health and occupational health primarily in Sweden, New Zealand and Australia. Dr. Kjellstrom received his undergraduate medical degree and PhD from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and a Masters in Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Mary D. Nichols  Mary D. Nichols, J.D., was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as Chairman of the California Air Resources Board in July 2007. She returns to the Air Board 30 years after serving as the Chairman under Governor Jerry Brown from 1978 to 1983.Nichols has devoted her entire career in public and private, not-for-profit service to advocating for the environment and public health. In addition to her work at the Air Board, she has held a number of positions, including: assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Air and Radiation program under the Clinton Administration, Secretary for California's Resources Agency from 1999 to 2003, and Director of the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of the Environment. As one of California's first environmental lawyers, she initiated precedent-setting test cases under the Federal Clean Air Act and California air quality laws while practicing as a staff attorney for the Center for Law in the Public Interest. Nichols holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Yale Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University. In her return as Chairman, Nichols' priorities include moving the state's landmark climate change program ahead, as well as steering the Board through numerous efforts to curb diesel pollution at ports, and continuing to pass regulations aimed at providing cleaner air for Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley. She values innovation, partnerships and common-sense approaches to addressing the state’s air issues. The Air Resources Board leads the country in working with the public, the business sector, and local governments to protect the public's health, the economy and the state's ecological resources through the most cost-effective reduction of air pollution. The Board now employs roughly 1,200 engineers, scientists and attorneys, with an annual operating budget of more than $750 million. Dr. Jonathan Patz  Dr. Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, is associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directs a university-wide initiative on Global Environmental Health. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and also an Affiliate Scientist of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).Dr. Patz has written over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers addressing the health effects of global environmental change. From 1996-2000, he was principal investigator for the largest U.S. multi-institutional study on climate change health risks and has briefed the U.S. Congress, Administration, and federal agency leaders. He has earned medical board certification in both Occupational/Environmental Medicine and Family Medicine and received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and his Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Johns Hopkins University. In 2005 he was awarded as an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow. Dr. Linda Rosenstock  Dr.
Linda Rosenstock is Dean of UCLA's School of Public Health, one of the nation's
top ranked schools. She is Professor of Medicine and Environmental Health
Sciences and a recognized authority in occupational and environmental health
and broad areas of public health and science policy.Before coming to UCLA in 2000, Dr. Rosenstock was Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) for nearly seven years. As Director of NIOSH, Rosenstock led the only federal agency with a mandate to undertake research and prevention activities in occupational safety and health. In recognition of her efforts, Rosenstock received the Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award, the highest executive service award in the government. Rosenstock received her M.D. and M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University. She conducted advanced training at the University of Washington, where she was Chief Resident in Internal Medicine and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Dr. Gina Solomon  Dr. Gina Solomon, MD, MPH, is a senior scientist in the Health and Environment Program of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in San Francisco. She is a specialist in adult internal medicine, preventive medicine and occupational and environmental medicine. Dr. Solomon is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco where she is an attending physician at the U.C. Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit. Her work has included research on asthma, diesel exhaust, breast cancer, pesticides, contaminants in breast milk and threats to reproductive health and child development. Dr. Solomon has written numerous articles and reports and is the co-author of the book, Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment. Dr. Solomon served on the U.S. EPA’s Federal Advisory Committee on endocrine disrupting chemicals, on the EPA Science Advisory Board Panel on trichloroethylene, and on the California Expert Working Group on Environmental Health Tracking. Dr. Solomon attended medical school at Yale and did her residency and fellowship training at Harvard. In 2002, she received The Breast Cancer Fund’s Heroes Award. Dr. Nathan Wolfe  Dr. Nathan Wolfe, PHD is a Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health. His current work includes identifying those factors which allow viruses to cross from animals into humans and to develop systems to monitor the emergence of viruses before they reach epidemic levels. He is a former consultant for the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and was a guest researcher with the Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Infectious Diseases, HIV and Retrovirology Branch. Dr. Wolfe is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, and was awarded a $2.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award in 2005 to work in regions of high biodiversity with subsistence hunters, who will collaborate in the establishment of a sentinel surveillance system to monitor the spillover of novel viruses into the human species. Dr. Wolfe received his doctorate in Immunology and Infectious Diseases from Harvard University School of Public Health in 1998 and his MA in Biological Anthropology from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. |
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