EPA Response to September 11 | Region 2

Morton Lippmann, Ph.D.

Morton Lippmann, Ph.D., is a Professor of Environmental Medicine at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine where he has been on its faculty since 1967. He holds a Ph.D. (NYU, 1967) in Environmental Health Science, an S.M. (Harvard University, 1955) in Industrial Hygiene, and a B.Ch.E. (The Cooper Union, 1954) in Chemical Engineering. At NYU, he directs a research program on Human Exposure and Health Effects, and the EPA-supported Particulate Matter Health Effects Research Center. He has been the recipient of numerous awards for his research and contributions in aerosol science and pulmonary physiology, human exposure assessment and dosimetry, chemical transformations in the atmosphere, population studies of exposure-response relationships in occupational and community cohorts, and factors affecting the toxicity of airborne fibers. Much of this research has been focused on specific chemical agents, notably ozone, sulfuric acid, and asbestos.

Dr. Lippmann is a past President of the International Society of Exposure Analysis (1994-1995), past Chairman of: the ACGIH (1982-1983); the EPA Science Advisory Board's Executive Committee (2000-2001); EPA's Advisory Committee on Indoor Air Quality and Total Human Exposure (1987-1993); EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (1983-1987); and of the NIOSH Board of Scientific Counselors (1991-1993). He has been Chair of the External Scientific Advisory Committee of the Childrens Health Study of air pollution in Southern California at USC since its inception (1993-2003) and of the study of the inhalation toxicology of complex air pollutant mixtures at the National Environmental Respiratory Center in Albuquerque (1997-2004). He has also chaired and been a member of numerous National Research Council committees, including committees on the airliner cabin environment and the health of passengers and crew, synthetic vitreous fibers, measurement and control of respirable dust in mines, indoor pollutants, toxicity data elements, and in-vivo toxicity testing of complex mixtures. His publications include 280 research and review papers in the scientific literature and two reference texts on environmental health science.