David Ozonoff

David Michael Ozonoff is the Chair Emeritus of Environmental Health and Professor Emeritus at Boston University School of Public Health, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the online journal, Environmental Health and Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, at Boston University School of Medicine and a trichloroethylene expert.

Education Ozonoff earned his MD from Cornell University, MPH from Johns Hopkins University, and BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Selected publications "Fewer resources now," opinion in "Swine Flu: A Cause for Panic?" The New York Times, 2009 Apr 27. "Quality and value: statistics in peer review," Peer-to-Peer, Nature.com, 2006 Jun 14. "Epistemology in the courtroom: a little 'knowledge' is a dangerous thing," American Journal of Public Health, Supplement, 2005 Jul; 95(S1): S13-S15. "Legal causation and responsibility for causing harm," American Journal of Public Health, Supplement, 2005 Jul; 95(S11):S35-S38. "Ticket to ride: spreading germs a mile high" (with L Pepper), The Lancet, 2005 Mar 12–18; 365(9463):989-996. "Implications of the Precautionary Principle in research and policy-making" (with P Grandjean, JC Bailar, D Gee, HL Needleman, E Richter, M Sofritti, & CL Soskolne), American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2004 Apr; 45(4):382-385. "Anthrax: the precautionary principle goes postal," Public Health Reports, 2002 Nov-Dec; 117(6):513-20. "Superfund Basic Research Program: a model for contemporary research programs," Environmental Health Perspectives, 2003; 111:A140-A141. "Neuropsychological functioning in Danish Gulf War veterans" (with SP Proctor, RF White, T Heeren, F Debes, B Gloerfelt-Tarp, M Appleyard, T Ishoy, B Guldager, P Suadicani & F Gyntelberg), Journal of Psychopathology Behavioral Assessment, 2003 Jun; 25(2):85-93. "Collaborating on public health issues" (with A Robbins), Science, 2002 May 24; 296(5572):1400. Letter. "Health toll of the Middle East crisis," The Lancet, 2002 May 25; 359(9320):1859-1860. "Neuropsychological function in Gulf War veterans: relationships to self-reported toxicant exposures" (with RF White, SP Proctor, T Heeren, J Wolfe, M Krengel, J Vasterling, K Lindem, KJ Heaton & P Sutker), American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2001 Jul; 40(1):42-54. "Where the boys aren't: dioxin and the sex ratio" (with R Clapp), The Lancet, 2000 May; 355(9218):1838-1839. "Tetrachloroethylene-contaminated drinking water in Massachusetts and the risk of colon-rectum, lung, and other cancers" (with C Paulu & A Aschengrau), Environmental Health Perspectives, 1999 Apr; 107(4):265-271. "Cancer survival is no lottery" (with R Clapp), The Lancet 1999 Apr 24;353(9162):1379-80. "Integrating values into science: the view of an unreconstructed philosophical realist," Human Ecology Review, 1998; 5(1):49-50. "The uses and misuses of skepticism: epidemiology and its critics," Public Health Reports, 1998; 111:321,323. "Environmental health," Chapter 9 in J Noble, ed., Textbook of General Medicine and Primary Care (Little-Brown, 1987). "An attack on 'A defense of vitalism'," Journal of Theoretical Biology, 1969 Jan; 24(1):121-122.