Russ Hauser, MD, ScD, MPH

Russ Hauser, MD, ScD, MPH, is an associate professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology in the departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He graduated from Clark University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He received his MPH and ScD from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he completed a residency in occupational medicine. He is board certified in occupational medicine. From 2000 to 2004, he served as deputy director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency, NIOSH Education and Research Center.

Dr. Hauser's research focuses on the effects of environmental and occupational chemicals on fertility and pregnancy outcomes. He is conducting an epidemiologic study on the relationship of chlorinated chemicals, pesticides, bisphenol A, and phthalates with male and female reproductive health. Maternal end points of interest include infertility and pregnancy outcomes such as early pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and preterm birth as well as measures of fetal growth, including birth weight. Male end points of interest include semen quality and sperm DNA damage, as well as the paternal contribution to adverse pregnancy outcomes. The study is being conducted in collaboration with physicians from the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also conducting a prospective cohort study on children in Chapaevsk, Russia, where he is investigating the relationship of exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds with growth and pubertal development in boys. He recently began a two-state study in collaboration with researchers from Yale University on genetic and environmental risk factors for testicular germ cell cancer.

Dr. Hauser has served on two Gulf War and Health committees for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He has also served as a reviewer for two National Academy of Sciences update reports on veterans and Agent Orange. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. He is chair of the Environment and Reproduction Special Interest Group, American Society for Reproductive Medicine.