Effects of Global Warming on Public Health

Guest Bio: Lynn Goldman, MD, MS, MPH

Lynn R. Goldman is the Michael and Lori Milken Dean at Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University (Milken Institute SPH). Before joining Milken Institute SPH in 2010, she was a professor of environmental health sciences at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to that, Goldman served as assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, where she was responsible for national implementation of chemical and pesticide safety and pollution prevention laws.

She also worked at the California Department of Public Health, where she headed the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control. Dr. Goldman is a pediatrician and environmental epidemiologist who has had a distinguished career in environmental public health and academia. A member of the National Academy of Medicine, she has chaired or served on numerous committees and forums. She currently serves on the National Academy of Medicine Governing Council, the Governing Board of the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences’ Engineering and Medicine Board on Life Sciences Report Review Committee. She is a member of the FDA Science Board and the Advisory Committee to the Director of the CDC. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and as a Trustee for the Environmental Defense Fund.