Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
P.O. Box 9
683 Hoes Lane West
Piscataway, NJ
USA 08854
Email: shendedg@umdnj.edu
Disclosure statement:
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Dr. Derek G. Shendell, D.Env, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the School of Public Health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). He is also on the graduate faculty of Rutgers University and a member of the Exposure Science Division of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI). EOSHI is a joint institute of the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers University. He works to “bridge” science, education and policy in a multidisciplinary fashion to reduce and/or prevent environmental exposures and health effects. He focuses on community/schools-based research with local participation in planning and execution; educational trainings and materials, service and technical assistance; and, informed/evidence-based policy advocacy. His research and professional publications have focused on: school environments, including portable versus traditional, site-built school classrooms and facilities; indoor air and environmental quality in homes and office buildings; urban outdoor air quality and environment characterization, including relationships between indoor, outdoor, personal (adult, child) and in-vehicle air concentrations of fine particles and various toxic air contaminants; ventilation and energy efficiency, and linkages to student attendance; and, asthma among children and older adults.
At UMDNJ School of Public Health, he is an Assistant Professor and Director of the NJ Safe Schools Program (http://www.njsafeschools.org), which includes injury surveillance, science-to-policy, communications, and many types of training for teachers and administrative professionals in secondary education (public and private) concerning safety and health.
His other prior work experience included being:
• Senior Research Associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (11/2000-3/2004);
• California Endowment funded “Community Action to Fight Asthma Initiative’s” (8/2002-12/2005; CAFA-I) as both Statewide Director of Environmental Health Sciences and Education Projects (2/2004-12/2005) and the Interim Executive Director for eight months (10/2004-6/2005). In addition, from February-June 2005, he was the main technical and administrative advisor to the eight asthma coalitions in the Central California region, and an interdisciplinary health policy research fellow with California State University-Fresno from May-December 2005, working in particular with Fresno, Merced, Tulare and Stanislaus County Asthma Coalitions.
• Assistant Professor and founding faculty member of a newly accredited MPH program at the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta, GA. At GSU, he was also affiliated faculty with two programs (Non-profit Studies, Environmental Policy Studies) at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
• Finally, he attended and completed the American Lung Association’s Asthma Educator Institute in June, 2007.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
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