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Appendix: Biographical Information on the Committee on Estimating the Health-Risk-Reduction Benefits of Proposed Air Pollution Regulations
Pages 166-170

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From page 166...
... George's Hospital Medical School in London, England. The focus of his research is on the short- and long-term health effects of air pollution with an emphasis on the relationships between daily variations in air pollution and mortality, hospital admissions, and medical consultations.
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From page 167...
... She is past president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and a former chair of the Advisory Council for Clean Air Act Compliance Analysis, a subcommittee of EPA's Science Advisory Board. Her research has focused on valuing environmental amenities (especially environmental health effects)
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From page 168...
... He has completed a European assessment of the public health impact of outdoor and traff~c-related airpollution. He is a member ofthe World Health Organization (WHO ~ Air Pollution Health Impact Assessment Working Group.
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From page 169...
... His research activities have included developing a method for estimating airpollution hearth effects for the World Health Organization, evaluating health and economic consequences of air pollution in developing countries for the World Bank, and conducting epidemiological studies ofthe health effects of air pollution. He was the coauthor ofthe U
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From page 170...
... He specializes in human health risk assessment, human toxicology, and biological modeling of human exposure to environmental chemicals and has particular expertise in health effects of air pollutants. From 1985 to 2000, he was an associate or adjunct professor of physiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and conducted research on human health effects of air tonics, methods to measure lung macrophage function, and lung deposition and clearance of radioactive tracer particles.
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