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David E Jacobs, PhD

Chief Scientist at the National Center for Healthy Housing

David E Jacobs, PhD, CIH is currently Chief Scientist at the National Center for Healthy Housing, where he directs the US Collaborating Center for Healthy Housing Research and Training for the World Health Organization. He is also an adjunct associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Division). He holds degrees in Environmental Engineering (PhD), Science and Technology Policy (MS), Environmental Health (BS) and Political Science (BA). He was a contributing author to the recently released Guidelines on Housing and Health from the World Health Organization. He helped launch the Health Homes Initiative in the US in 1999 with a report to Congress, where he has testified on several occasions. Dr. Jacobs has led research related to childhood lead poisoning prevention, lead exposure assessment and mitigation, healthy housing, asthma, green building design and policy development. He also was the principal author of the Guidelines for the Evaluation and Control of Lead Based Paint Hazards, the standard industry reference in the field. He was a principal author of the President’s Task Force report on childhood lead poisoning prevention in 2000. He has over a hundred peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, most of which are available at this link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1JOvfKctLhqAv/bibliography/56475345/public/?sort=date&direction=descending He previously served on the EPA’s Science Advisory Board Lead in Dust Panel, the EPA Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee, the World Health Organization Healthy Housing Guideline Development Group, the National Academy of Sciences (Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Post-Disaster Recovery of a Community’s Public Health, Medical and Social Services), National Advisory Panel on Social Determinants of Health for Minnesota Blue Cross/Blue Shield Foundation, the HUD Secretary’s Task Force on Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction and Financing, the East Baltimore Development Initiative Expert Advisory Committee, the lead poisoning prevention and healthy homes advisory committee for the District of Columbia and others. Dr. Jacobs is also President of Lincoln Westmoreland Housing in Washington DC, a non-profit organization providing low-income housing for over 150 families.

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