Dr Howard Frumkin M.D, MPH, DrPH


altDr Howard Frumkin is Special Assistant to the Director for Climate Change and Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 


Dr. Frumkin is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist, and epidemiologist.  Before joining the CDC in September, 2005, he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Emory Medical School. 

He founded and directed Emory’s Environmental and Occupational Medicine Consultation Clinic and the Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit.


Dr. Frumkin received his A.B. from Brown University, his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. from Harvard, his Internal Medicine training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Cambridge Hospital, and his Occupational Medicine training at Harvard. 

He is Board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and Collegium Ramazzini.

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Dr. Howard Frualtmkin, Director of NCEH/ATSDR, discusses the benefits of walkable communities as they relate to health, the environment, and social interaction.

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Join one thousand delegates at the inaugural International Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress 2010. This ground breaking event will explore the many ways nature and parks significantly contribute to our health and wellbeing.

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Q & A with Dr Aaron Bernstein

Read our Q & A with Congress keynote Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH. He is on faculty at Harvard Medical School and the Center for Health and the Global Environment. Along with Nobel Peace Prize recipient Eric Chivian, he co-authored 'Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity'. 

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One of the paper's author's, Professor Jo Barton of the interdisciplinary Centre for Environment and Society - University of Essex, will be presenting at the Congress.

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