Joel Schwartz is an American epidemiologist, and Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, School of Public Health.

He graduated from Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...

with a Ph.D. in 1980.
He identified the environmental exposure of lead in gasoline, which led to its ban.

He is a Partner of the Michigan Metals Epidemiology Research Group.

External links

• "An INTERVIEW with Dr. Joel Schwartz", Air Pollution
• "Joel Schwartz", Scientific Commons