External Advisory Committee
The External Advisory Committee (EAC) is comprised of scientists outside the Harvard Center who have outstanding expertise in environmental health science. They also have experience in designing and implementing large multidisciplinary centers, including directing other NIEHS Centers for Environmental Health.
Role of EAC
The External Advisory Committee (EAC) meets annually in the spring in conjunction with the annual Center retreat. The EAC reviews individual components of the Center, collaborative activity, the Pilot Project program, and the Center's new initiatives. The EAC's primary function is to provide advice and objective quality control. The EAC advises the Center Director on all matters pertaining to the funding of the Center, need for additional facilities, evaluation of individual research and facility cores, reallocation of funds, and phasing in or out of projects. The EAC meetings provide a stimulus for a heightened internal debate of the Center's efficacy. Center faculty members and other investigators are invited to the annual EAC meetings to address specific agenda items. The EAC provides recommendations to the Center Executive Committee.
During the past several years, the EAC's expertise and recommendations have been particularly important as the Harvard-NIEHS repositions itself in response to the evolving NIEHS expectations and directions for the Centers program, and as the Harvard-NIEHS Center has evaluated our structure and reorganized our Center.
EAC Members
Dr. John M. Peters (Chair), Professor and former Director of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Health, and former Director of the NIEHS Center for Environmental Health at the University of Southern California;
Dr. Michael A. Gallo, Professor in the School of Public Health, and Director of the NIEHS Center for Environmental Health, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School;
Dr. David L. Eaton, Associate Dean for Research, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and Director of the NIEHS Center for Environmental Health at the University of Washington in Seattle;
Dr. Andrij Holian, Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Montana;
Dr. David M. Ozonoff, Professor of Public Health and former Chair of the Department of Environmental Health, Director of the Superfund Basic Research Program at the Boston University School of Public Health;
Dr. Regina M. Santella, Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, and Director of the NIEHS Center for Environmental Health at the School of Public Health, Columbia University in New York;