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PSE Advisory Council

Stefan Bringezu, Ph.D.

Stefan Bringezu is Director at the Wuppertal Institute, heading the Research Groupon Material Flows and Resource Management, and Professor for SustainableResource Management at the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR) at University of Kassel where he also co-chairs the Sustainable ResourcesFutures group. Biologist by training, PhD in ecosystems analysis. He worked onchemicals assessment, supply systems and environmental planning; lecturedat several universities, initiated scientific networks (ConAccount, cofounder ofISIE), and pioneered on methods such as MFA and derived indicators; memberof various advisory boards, Member of the International Resource Panel (co-chairworking group land and soil); his main subject is the analysis of the socio-industrialmetabolism and related land use and the instruments to sustain resource supply, useand waste management.

Stefan Bringezu authored many scientific publications. A key book is:
S. Bringezu, R. Bleischwitz (contr. Eds.) (2009): Sustainable Resource Management - Global Trends, Visions and Policies. Greenleaf Publishers, Sheffield.

Michel Boufadel, Ph.D.

PE, P.Hydro.

Michel Boufadel is Director for the Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection, professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark College of Engineering), Professional Engineer, andProfessional Hydrologist accredited by the American Institute of Hydrology. As an expert in the field of oil spill research, he currently serves on the National Research Council (National Academies) Committee on the long term impact of the DWH Blowout. He also recently served on the EPA Science Advisory Board for natural gas extraction from shale formations. Boufadel's projects include floodplain delineation for FEMA and predicting contamination in urban streams, evaluation of oil biodegradation in the Gulf of Mexico beaches following the DWH blowout (Report of the Operation Science Advisory Team), and natural gas extraction from shale formations.

Boufadel has more than 80 refereed articles in publications such as Nature, Geoscience, Water Resources Research, Environmental Science and Technology, and Marine Pollution Bulletin.

David R. Brown, Sc.D.

David Brown is the Public Health Toxicologist and Director of Public Health Toxicology for Environment and Human Health, Inc. He is the past Chief of Environmental Epidemiology and Occupational Health in Connecticut and was previously Associate Professor of Toxicology at Northeastern College of Pharmacy and Allied Health. He also served as Deputy Director of the Public Health Practice Group of Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) at the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Brown graduated from Cornell University in Biochemistry, received his MS from the University of California In Environmental Health, and his ScD from Harvard School of Public Health in Toxicology.

Madelon Finkel, Ph.D.

Dr. Madelon Finkel earned her undergraduate degree from University College, New York University, and an M.P.A. in Public Health, with a concentration in health services research, also from New York University. She was awarded a Ph.D. in epidemiology and health services research from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of New York University. Dr. Finkel's professional career has been spent at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University where she currently holds the rank of Professor of Clinical Public Health and Course Director for the Department of Public Health. In 2005, she was named the Director of the Office of Global Health.

Throughout her professional career, Dr. Finkel has been involved in epidemiological research and health care policy studies. Her pioneering work on second surgical opinion programs led to the widespread adoption and implementation of the second opinion benefit required by almost all insurance companies, corporations, and unions. More recently her research has focused on women's health issues including cervical cancer screening in rural India, reduction of maternal mortality in Peru, and reduction of preterm birth in Brazil. She is the author of over 80 publications and 10 books on health care policy and public health issues, including mammography screening and understanding epidemiology as it relates to public policy. She served as editor of a three-volume book, Public Health in the 21^st Century (Praeger Press), which was published in 2011. Dr. Finkel's research also focuses on unconventional shale gas extraction, and she is the author of several papers on the public health aspects of 'fracking'.

Dr Finkel has served as consultant to numerous organizations, including law firms and pharmaceutical companies, in the areas of epidemiology and health care policy. She has been appointed by the Director General of the WHO to the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Evaluation, and is a member of the American College of Epidemiology.

Jerome Paulson, M.D.

Jerome A. Paulson, MD is Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences and Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health at the GW School of Public Health & Health Services. He is the Medical Director for National & Global Affairs of the Child Health Advocacy Institute at the Children's National Medical Center. Dr. Paulson is the director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment (MACCHE) and of the Environmental Health Track at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Dr. Paulson is the chairperson of the executive committee of the Council on Environmental Health American Academy of Pediatrics. He also serves on the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee for the US Environmental Protection Agency. Dr Paulson helped organize and was a presenter at a panel on Unconventional Gas Extraction at the 2011 American Public Health Association meeting. He helped organize and was the lead-off speaker at the 2012 conference on the Public Health Aspects of Shale Gas Extraction jointly sponsored by Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy and MACCHE. He also was an invited panelist at the May 2012 meeting on unconventional gas extraction organized by the George Washington University School of Public Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry.