Philip Landrigan

Philip Landrigan is a pediatrician, occupational physician and epidemiologist.  He is a graduate of Boston Latin School, Boston College, and Harvard Medical School.  He trained in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, in Epidemiology at CDC, and in Occupational Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.   From 1979-1985, he directed the Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies at NIOSH. From 1985-2018, he was a professor in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he chaired the Department of Preventive Medicine and served as Dean for Global Health. Dr. Landrigan co-chaired the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, which found that pollution is responsible for over 9 million deaths per year.  He currently leads the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health, which finds that plastics and petrochemicals are responsible for disease and death at every stage of their life cycle.