Faculty Directory

James K. Hammitt is Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences and Director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. His research and teaching concern the development and application of quantitative methods—including risk, decision, and benefit-cost analysis— to health and environmental policy.Professor Hammitt holds degrees in Applied Mathematics and Public Policy from Harvard University and was previously Senior Mathematician at the RAND Corporation, a faculty member at the RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies, and held the Pierre-de-Fermat Chaire d’Éxcellence at the Toulouse School of Economics. He chaired the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis and…

Mr. Harpin received both his B.S. in Physics and his M.S. in Radiological Sciences and Protection from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Mr. Harpin currently works as an EHS Officer in the MIT Reactor Radiation Protection Program and previously worked as a Health Physicist at Lantheus in a radiopharmaceutical production environment. Mr. Harpin is an experienced trainer and has expertise in the areas of air sampling and shipping. 

Wendy Heiger-Bernays is a faculty member in the Department of Environmental Health at the BU School of Public Health where she applies her training in molecular toxicology to practical questions about the impact of industrial chemicals, consumer products and pharmaceuticals in waste streams on people’s health. She works collaboratively to assess toxicity of chemicals and chemical mixtures that modify metabolic pathways in cells, fish and rodent models. Dr. Heiger-Bernays’ work is focused on technology and information transfer of the science to multiple audiences, including environmental regulatory and health agencies as well as with advocacy groups and community groups. Her research…

Dr. Hernandez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and the Interim Director of the Center for Maternal Health Equity at Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Hernandez has a broad background in community-based participatory research (CBPR), women’s health inequities, health policy, and social determinants of health. She has more than 15 years of experience in developing community partnerships and implementing CBPR that engages with diverse stakeholder groups. Dr. Hernandez has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-investigator on numerous university, foundational, and NIH-funded grants focused on women’s health inequities.In 2019, she helped to…

Victor has over 45 years of industrial hygiene experience in diverse environments including hospitality, health care, industrial, aerospace, defense, commercial, construction, shipyard, mining, theatrical, semi-conductor, electronics, laboratory (decommissioning), and residential. For forty years he was with the Liberty Mutual Industrial Hygiene team, holding various positions from Field Industrial Hygienist to Industrial Hygiene Technical Director and Director of Industrial Hygiene Field Services. Vic has testified numerous times in cases involving occupational and environmental health. Most recently, he founded the Hillman Health and Hygiene LLC consulting company. Victor has been active on several American Industrial Hygiene Association committees, has been on AIHA local section boards,…

Albert Hofman, MD, PhD is the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and the Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). Dr. Hofman was the Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology of the Erasmus Medical Center/Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, from 1988 until 2016. Dr. Hofman is the initiator of two population-based cohort studies in the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands: the Rotterdam Study (1990) and the Generation R study (2002). These studies have as shared features that they target multiple common diseases,…

Martin is a graduate of the Masters Program at the Harvard School of Public Health with a degree in Industrial Hygiene. He spent 14 years at Polaroid Corp. in the Corporate Industrial Hygiene Office and Divisional Semiconductor Manufacturing Group. Duties included industrial hygiene monitoring and control evaluation, radiation and laser safety officer. From 1996 to 2010, Martin worked at the Micromachined Products Div. of Analog Devices in Cambridge as the Health and Safety Manager. This included industrial hygiene, safety, and hazardous waste management at a semiconductor fabrication facility. He helped to decommission this facility and moved to the Analog Devices…

Stephen Jenkins MSc. MBA is the Director of Health and Safety for the Cintas Corporation. During his tenure, Cintas has achieved industry-best injury and vehicle collision rates and garnered numerous awards, including 9 ergo awards from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Stephen is passionate about leadership in H&S and Ergonomics. He is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and guest lecturer at universities.  Prior to joining Cintas, Stephen coached Fortune 500 companies to achieve excellence in ergonomics and human centered design. For his innovative approaches to safety and ergonomics, he was awarded the 2018 Liberty Mutual Ergonomics Practitioner of the Year award.