Staff

Office of Illness and Injury Prevention Programs

Dr. Bonnie S. Richter has been the Director of the Office of Illness and Injury Prevention Programs since 2004, having served in the Office since 1990. Dr. Richter is responsible for managing senior level staff that provides technical support in epidemiology, public health, industrial hygiene, and health physics to both federal and contractor programs. Dr. Richter's professional training is in occupational epidemiology, the assessment of adverse health effects associated with occupational exposures. She received her A.B. (biology) from Clark University, Worcester, MA, earned an M.P.H. from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and received a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Dr. Richter has vast experience in conducting various health studies among workers, as well as residents of communities potentially exposed to chemical or radionuclide wastes. She has taught epidemiologic methods to diverse audiences, from graduate students to community groups. Dr. Richter served on the President's Task Force on Environmental Health and Safety Risks to Children, the Federal Interagency Working Group on Women's Health and the Environment, and the National Children's Study Chemical Exposure Group. Prior to joining DOE, Dr. Richter worked for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Clifton H. Strader, Ph.D., has been a member of the Office of Health since its establishment in 1990. He has done extensive work in the development of occupational health surveillance methods, managing the development of worker health surveillance as a contractor at the Hanford Site from 1986 to 1990. He currently manages the Department's Illness and Injury Surveillance Program, monitoring occupational illness and injury among more than 85,000 DOE contractor workers at 13 sites.

Dr. Strader is responsible for the development of Illness and Injury Surveillance reports and has lectured on various health and safety issues to numerous audiences including DOE workers, site occupational medicine staff, line management, and organized labor. He provides technical support in the conduct of outbreak investigations and provides guidance and consultation in the Department's ongoing evaluation and redesign of approaches to integrate health, safety, and environment data analysis. He received his doctorate in epidemiology from the University of Washington, School of Public Health.