Monday, Dec. 1st 1:00 – 2:00pm EST
Webinar Title: “Camp Lejeune: A Case Study”
Presenter: Frank Bove, Sc.D.
On Monday, December 1, 2014, PROTECT hosted the second installment of its webinar series, Careers in Environmental Health Sciences, during which guest speaker Dr. Frank Bove discussed his experience as an epidemiologist and his work at Camp Lejeune. Please click here to view the recorded webinar.
Biography
Frank Bove is a senior epidemiologist in the Division of Health Studies, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)/CDC since 1991. His research has focused on the health effects of drinking water contamination and exposures to toxic waste sites. Currently, he is working on health studies evaluating drinking water exposures to high concentrations of TCE, PCE, and vinyl chloride at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, for which he recently won the 2014 David Ozonoff Unsung Hero Award.
From 1986 to 1991, Dr. Bove was a research scientist at the NJ Department of Health, Environmental Health Service. He has a masters in Environmental Health Science (1984), and a Sc.D jointly in Occupational Health Science and in Epidemiology (1987), from the Harvard University School of Public Health. Bove has a BA in Political Science and in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania (1973). From 1973 to 1975, he attended graduate school in philosophy at Boston University (no degree). During 1975-1982, he worked as an organizer in the Boston Metro area on various issues including energy, environment, health, housing, and welfare rights. He is currently on the board of ECO-Action, a grassroots environmental organization in Atlanta, GA.
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