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grated Programs at the Electric Power Research Institute. Dr. Bahadori is the
immediate past president of the International Society of Exposure Science and
an associate editor of the
Journal of Exposure Science
and
Environmental Epi-
demiology
. She served as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for En-
vironmental Health (NCEH)/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR), as a member of the CDC NCEH/ATSDR National Conversation on
Public Health and Chemical Exposure Leadership Council, as a peer reviewer
for the EPA grants and programs, and as a member of the Chemical Exposure
Working Group on the National Children's Study. She has also served on sev-
eral National Research Council committees, most recently as a member of the
Committee to Develop a Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and
Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials, the Committee on Human and
Environmental Exposure Science in the 21st Century, and the Board on Envi-
ronmental Studies and Toxicology. Dr. Bahadori earned an ScD in environ-
mental science and engineering from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Eric J. Beckman
is the George M. Bevier Professor of Engineering in the Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. He is
also codirector of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, a center in the
school of engineering that focuses on the design of sustainable communities. Dr.
Beckman's research interests involve the design of green chemical products and
molecular design of biomedical devices. Dr. Beckman was honored as the 1992
recipient of the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award and the
2002 Academic Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. He earned a
PhD in polymer science from the University of Massachusetts.
Thomas A. Burke
is associate dean for public-health practice and professor of
health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg
School of Public Health. He holds joint appointments in the Department of En-
vironmental Health Sciences and the School of Medicine's Department of On-
cology. Dr. Burke is also director of the Johns Hopkins Risk Sciences and Pub-
lic Policy Institute. His research interests include environmental epidemiology
and surveillance, evaluation of population exposures to environmental pollut-
ants, assessment and communication of environmental risks, and application of
epidemiology and health risk assessment to public policy. Before joining Johns
Hopkins University, Dr. Burke was deputy commissioner of health for New Jer-
sey and director of science and research for the New Jersey Department of Envi-
ronmental Protection. In New Jersey, he directed initiatives that influenced the
development of national programs, such as Superfund, the Safe Drinking Water
Act, and the Toxics Release Inventory. Dr. Burke was the inaugural chair of the
advisory board to the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion National Center for Environmental Health and is currently a member of the
US Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board. He has served
on several National Research Council committees, most recently as chair of the
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