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Biography
Mark A. Brown, PhD
Director, Environmental Agents Service
Before
joining the Department of Veterans Affairs on August 30, 1999,
Dr. Brown worked on a variety of public health and environmental
issues in federal and state government, private industry, university
research laboratories, and nonprofit organizations.
Most recently, he worked at the Department of Commerce on
nonproliferation export controls for chemical and biological
weapons.
Previously,
Dr. Brown served 2-1/2 years on the staff of the Presidential
Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses.
There he directed the review of Gulf War health risk factors
including exposure to chemical weapons, pesticides, depleted
uranium, infectious diseases, various petroleum products, and
physchological and physiological stress.
Dr.
Brown also worked at the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology
Assessment (OTA) where he directed or worked on health and
environmental policy issues of interest to Congress. Before
coming to Washington, DC in 1991 as an AAAS Science &
Engineering Fellow, he was an Environmental Biochemist at the
California Department of Health Services.
In
1983, Dr. Brown received his Ph.D. in environmental chemistry at the
University of California at Berkeley; and prior to that, an M.S. in
organic chemistry from the University of Oregon at Eugene.
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