Richard W Clapp, DSC

Dr. Clapp is an Emeritus Professor in the department of Environmental Health at Boston University with more than forty years’ experience in public health practice, teaching and consulting, Richard (Dick) Clapp is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He guest lectures in courses at Boston University School of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health and UMass Lowell. He served as Director of the Massachusetts Cancer Registry from 1980-1989 and former Co-Chair of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility. He has published more than eighty articles, reviews and book chapters and edited a book entitled "From Critical Science to Solutions." Dr. Clapp received an award for “Science for the Benefit of Environmental Health” in 2006 from the Toxics Action Center and the "Research Integrity Award" in 2008 from the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. He frequently speaks to community groups and participates in advisory committees to government agencies and academic institutions.