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Board of Directors | Advisory Board | Staff | Science Advisory Leonardo Trasande, M.D. <<Back to Science Advisory Dr. Trasande currently serves as the Assistant Director for The Mount Sinai Center for Children's Health and the Environment (CCHE). CCHE is the nation's first academic research and policy center to examine the links between exposure to toxic pollutants and childhood illness.
Dr. Trasande earned a Master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed
a pediatrics residency at Boston Children's Hospital. During this residency, he noticed that residents rarely learned how to influence the policy-making
process to improve the lives of children. As a result, he developed and established an advocacy training program for residents. As part of this residency
program, he led a project which focused on improving the health of asthmatics in Jamaica Plain, an underserved neighborhood where asthma is unusually prevalent.
Based on a survey and focus groups, they discovered a lack of understanding of asthma and general underutilization of existing community resources. Residents
then developed and planned to study a school-based educational intervention for children in Jamaica Plain and their families about asthma. After his residency,
Dr. Trasande served as a Dyson Advocacy Fellow to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, advising the Senator on environmental and child health issues.
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Current Research
Cost-benefit analysis of policy options to reduce mercury exposure in American children Dr. Trasande is building upon previous cost analyses of environmental mercury exposure in A merican children to compare the public health and economic consequences of policies to reduce mercury emissions in America.
Children's environmental health clinics With funding from the New York Community Trust, he is also preparing a report that will argue for the establishment of a network of children's environmental health clinics in New York State.
National Children's Study
Dr. Trasande is working with a broad-based coalition including diverse groups such as the March of Dimes and the American Chemistry Council to ensure full funding and
implementation of the federally-sponsored National Children's Study, which will provide critical information about the role of the environment in childhood chronic diseases,
and form the foundation of child health policy for decades to come.
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