John Evans
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John Evans
Adjunct Professor of
Environmental Health,
Department of Environmental
Health
Professor and Director, Cyprus
International Institute for Environmental and Public
Health
Dr. Evans' research focuses on
risk assessment, uncertainty analysis, and decision
making in environmental health. His early work
concentrated on improving the models used to estimate
the health impacts of accidental releases of
radionuclides from nuclear power plants and on
understanding the evidence from cross-sectional and
time-series studies of the mortality impacts of airborne
particulate matter.
Working with a series of
talented and dedicated doctoral students and
postdoctoral fellows, including Adam Finkel, Neil
Hawkins, Alison Cullen, Kim Thompson, Andy Smith, Katy
Walker, Scott Wolff, Kevin Brand, George Gray, Sandra
Baird, TJ Carrothers and Jouni Tuomisto, Dr. Evans
developed approaches for characterizing uncertainty in
estimates of environmental health risks and for using
such estimates to inform decisions about emissions
controls and research prioritization.
In the mid-to-late 1990’s Dr.
Evans became interested in developing simple and
transparent approaches for estimating population
exposure to air pollutants. Working with Andy Wilson,
Kanchanasak Phonboon and Ying Zhou, he pioneered the
development and application of the concept of intake
fraction to meet this need.
From 2002 until 2008 Dr. Evans
directed a program of study to assess the public health
impacts of Iraq's 1990 invasion and occupation of
Kuwait. The study used epidemiology and risk assessment
to characterize the health impacts of mine and ordnance
accidents, smoke from the oil well fires, polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons from the marine and terrestrial
oil spills, and depleted uranium from spent munitions.
Education
Sc.D., 1980, Harvard
University Environmental Health Sciences
S.M., 1977, Harvard University
Environmental Health Sciences
M.S., 1971, University of
Michigan Water Resources Management
B.S.E., 1969, University of
Michigan Industrial Engineering |
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Last Update
1/1/2017 11:18:10 AM
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