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John Daniel Spengler is an American health scholar currently the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Faculty member in the Department of Environmental Science and Public Policy of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
He has done research on controversial topics of personal monitoring, the health effects of air and other environmental pollution, indoor air pollution, and other environmental sustainability issues.
He chaired the committee on Harvard Sustainability Principles, served on Harvard's Greenhouse Gases Taskforce to develop the University's carbon reduction goals and strategies, and was a member of Harvard's Greenhouse Gases Executive Committee.
He has been an advisor to the World Health Organization on indoor air pollution, personal exposure, and air pollution epidemiology.
Education
Ph.D., 1971, State University of New York, Albany