The Office of Environmental Public Health (OEPH) provides senior scientific and administrative leadership in the effort to define, plan and evaluate research approaches in Environmental Public Health. OEPH assists in establishing specific goals for program development in EPH and a timeline for achieving such goals. OEPH establishes communications and partnerships with the nation’s public health research, training, and services enterprises, as well as coordination with other federal agencies involved in public health. In meeting its charge, activities of OEPH center on outreach to the community at large, both in the U.S. and abroad. OEPH functions to:
Allen Dearry, Ph.D.
Associate Director, NIEHS Director, Office of Environmental Public Health Tel (919) 541-3068 Fax (919) 541-3647 dearry@niehs.nih.gov P.O. Box 12233 Mail Drop K3-17 Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 Delivery Instructions Dr. Allen Dearry serves as Director of the Office of Environmental Public Health and an Associate Director at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to this position, he served as Interim Associate Director of the National Toxicology Program (2006-2007) and Director of the Division of Research Coordination, Planning and Translation (2003-2006) at NIEHS. Dr. Dearry has initiated numerous programs that are recognized nationally and internationally, both for their contribution to the knowledge base in biomedical science relating to environmental health as well as for their novel approach to community-university partnership and resultant impact on public health. Dr. Dearry has been honored to receive a number of NIEHS and NIH awards, as well as three DHHS Secretary’s Awards for Distinguished Service for providing outstanding leadership on issues related to possible health effects of exposure to Pfiesteria toxins (1998); for generating a public health and research response to the World Trade Center disaster (2002); and for dedicated support for the health and safety of victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita along the Gulf Coast (2006). Before coming to NIH, Dr. Dearry received a Ph.D. in Anatomy from the University of Pennsylvania; was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley; and then an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Ophthalmology at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Dearry led the effort to clone and sequence the gene for the human D1 dopaminergic receptor; he has two US patents for this and subsequent investigations. The Director of OEPH represents NIEHS/NIH/HHS in a variety of interagency coordinating bodies:
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