Contributor: Richard Clapp

Dr. Richard Clapp is an epidemiologist with over thirty years of experience in public health practice and consulting. He became a full-time faculty member in the Department of Environmental Health at Boston University in 1993. He has an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and a D.Sc. in Epidemiology from B.U. School of Public Health. He has worked in state and local health departments as director of a community health center, a statewide childhood lead poisoning prevention program, the Massachusetts Cancer Registry, and an environmental health consulting group at JSI Research and Training Institute. His research has focused on cancer in military veterans and in communities with toxic or radiation hazards. He is currently working on community-based research in New England and pesticide health effects research in South Africa. He is co-chair of the steering committee of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and serves on several other professional advisory committees.

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