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John Wargo, Ph.D.


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John Wargo, Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Children's Environmental Health and a tenured professor of environmental policy and risk analysis at the Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Considered one of the nation's experts in the field of pesticide risk, Professor Wargo has conducted extensive research on childhood exposure to complex mixtures of toxic substances, especially pesticides for the past decade. He is an award-winning author and the 1997 recipient of the American Medical Writers Association Award of Excellence in Medical Communications for Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides.

 

Professor Wargo is an advisor for the World Health Organization on food safety, exposure and risk assessment and an active member of the EPA/USDA Pesticide Tolerance Reassessment Advisory Committee. Additionally, in 1993, he served on the committee to study and assess pesticides in the diets of infants and children, which led to the landmark report published by the National of Academy of Sciences.

As a dedicated child health advocate, Professor. Wargo is one of CHEC's science advisory experts. He serves

on the Board of Directors of the Children's Health Environmental Coalition and has been instrumental in the development of CHEC's Environmental Childproofing Campaign, now in its first phase.

An engaging, sensitive and articulate communicator, Professor Wargo excels in speaking to lay audiences especially to parents and child care givers on CHEC's behalf.

Contact Information:
Center for Children's Environmental Health
Yale University
301 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511


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