Daniel S. Greenbaum

President and Chief Executive Officer,

Health Effects Institute

 

Dan Greenbaum joined the Health Effects Institute as its President and Chief Executive Officer on March 1, 1994.  In that role, Greenbaum leads HEI’s efforts, supported jointly by US EPA and industry, to provide public and private decision makers with high quality, impartial, relevant and credible science about the health effects of air pollution.

 

Greenbaum has focused HEI’s efforts on providing timely and critical research and reanalysis on particulate matter (PM), air toxics, diesel exhaust and alternative technologies and fuels. In addition, HEI has published major scientific reviews on the health effects of Diesel Exhaust, Particulate Matter, and Oxygenates Added to Gasoline.

 

Greenbaum chaired the EPA Blue Ribbon Panel on Oxygenates in Gasoline which issued its report Achieving Clean Air and Clean Water in July 1999 and EPA’s Clean Diesel Independent Review Panel, which issued its report on technology progress in implementing the 2007 Highway Diesel Rule in October 2002.  Greenbaum also serves on the National Research Council Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology, as vice chair of its Committee for Air Quality Management in the United States and as a member of its Committee on Research Priorities on Airborne Particulate Matter.  He regularly presents the results of HEI’s scientific work to U.S., international, and state audiences, the U.S. Congress, the Asian Development Bank, and the European Parliament. 

 

Greenbaum has three decades of governmental and non-governmental experience in environmental health.  Just prior to coming to HEI, he served as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection from 1988 to 1994, where he was responsible for the Commonwealth's response to the Clean Air Act, as well as its award-winning efforts on pollution prevention, water pollution and solid and hazardous waste.  Greenbaum holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from MIT in City Planning.

 

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