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Vaun A. Newill
Biography
[EPA press release - October 9, 1986]
Dr. Vaun A. Newill was confirmed by the Senate on Oct. 8 as Assistant Administrator for Research and Development (ORD) at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Dr. Newill, 62, previously served with EPA from 1970-74, including 18 months as special assistant for health affairs to the Administrator, and later on assignment to the Office of Science and Technology and the Office of Energy Research and Development, both in the Executive Office of the President.
"We are delighted to welcome Vaun Newill as head of our Office of Research and Development," said EPA Administrator Lee M. Thomas. "ORD plays a key role in assessing risk, an essential ingredient in EPA's regulatory decision-making process. Additionally, the agency is spending millions of dollars a year for research to strengthen the scientific basis for those regulations. Dr. Newill's vast experience in environmental medicine and management in both government and private industry will be invaluable to EPA. We are very fortunate to have him in this critical position."
Dr. Newill, who has been with the Exxon Corp. since 1974, has most recently been its regional medical director and head of the occupational and environmental health department, Esso Europe, London.
From 1981-85, he was associate medical director and director of the operations division in New York City for the company's medicine and environmental health department, responsible for the medical advisory role worldwide. He has also served in a number of other posts, including director of environmental health and director of the company's research and environmental health division in Linden and East Millstone, N.J., from 1974-1981.
Prior to his earlier service with EPA, Dr. Newill was with the National Center for Air Pollution Control, Washington, D.C., from 1967-68 and the Division of Air Pollution, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Preventive Medicine and Medicine, School of Medicine, Western Reserve University, from 1955-1967.
He was a visiting lecturer on epidemiology, School of Public Health, Harvard University, from 1960-64, adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, from 1968-1975, and has been clinical professor, Department of the Environment, School of Medicine, New York University, from 1975 to the present, simultaneously with his other work.
Dr. Newill also has served on the EPA Science Advisory Board's Clean Air Act Scientific Advisory Committee, the National Academy of Sciences Environmental Studies Board and the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board.
A native of Mount Pleasant, Pa., he received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Juniata College in 1943, and M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1947 and a master's degree in hygiene (epidemiology) from Harvard University in 1960. Dr. Newill was a resident in internal medicine at Veterans Administration hospitals in Buffalo, N.Y., and Cleveland, Ohio, in 1953 and 1954.