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Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical
School
Visiting Lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health
Dr.
Epstein is a widely published public health physician and medical
educator with expertise in the areas of marine ecosystems,
infectious diseases, and global climate change. He is a member of
the Harvard Working Group on New and Resurgent Infectious Diseases
and an author of both the Health Section of the IPCC 2nd Assessment
Report and the WHO/WMO/UNEP report Climate Change and Human
Health. He was the recipient of a National Oceanic Atmospheric
Administration's Office of Global Programs and NASA grant to study
the health, ecological, and economic dimensions of global change in
marine environments. Dr. Epstein is a member of the Harvard
University Committee on the Environment. Selected
Publications
Epstein PR.
Is Global Warming Harmful to Health?
Scientific American; August
2000
Epstein
PR. Climate and Health. Science 1999: 285: 347-348
Epstein
PR, Dobson A, Vandermeer J. Biodiversity and Emerging Infectious
Diseases: Integrating Health and Ecosystem Monitoring. In
Biodiversity and Human Health. Grifo F, Rosenthal J (Eds.).
Island Press. Washington DC 1997.
Epstein
PR, Ford TE, Colwell RR. Marine ecosystems. Lancet 1993; 342:
1216-1219.
Epstein
PR. Emerging diseases and ecosystem instability: New threats to
public health. American Journal of Public Health 1994; 85:
168-172.
Patz
JA, Epstein PR, Burke TA, Balbus JM. Global climate change and
emerging infectious diseases. Journal of the American Medical
Association 1996; 275: 217-223.
Haines
A, Epstein PR, McMichael AJ, on behalf of an international panel.
Global health watch: monitoring impacts of environmental change.
Lancet 1993; 342: 1463-1469.
Epstein
PR. Pestilence and poverty - historical transitions and the great
pandemics [Commentary]. American Journal of Preventive
Medicine 1992; 8: 263-5.
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