About Joel Schwartz
Born 1947. Joel Schwartz is an epidemiologist and researcher.
Joel Schwartz (born December 12, 1947, in Long Island, New York, United States) is an American epidemiologist, and Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, at Harvard University, School of Public Health.
He graduated from Brandeis University with a Ph.D. in 1980. Schwartz identified the effect on intelligence from the environmental exposure of lead in gasoline, and that lead in gasoline was the major source of lead in people. This led to its ban in 1986 by the EPA. He also demonstrated that lead exposure reduced hearing
Awards 1991 MacArthur Fellows Program 2001 International Union of Environmental Protection Agencies World Congress Award 2008 International Society for Environmental Epidemiology John Goldsmith Award
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