About the Author:
Janvier Gasana holds an MD from the National University of Rwanda Medical School in 1984. He also holds an MPH which he received in 1990 and a PhD in Public Health in 1994 from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a major in environmental health and a minor in environmental epidemiology. He has over 15 years of experience in teaching, community-based participatory research, service, and consultation in the area of environmental and occupational health sciences, epidemiology, medicine and environmental justice. He has been an educator for most of his career, including 4 years on the faculty of the Rwandan Medical School and 6 years on the faculty of the Department of Public Health of Florida International University, in Miami, Florida. He has developed and taught courses on public health and environmental management, occupational health and safety, fundamentals of industrial hygiene, environmental and occupational toxicology, environmental and occupational health monitoring, legal and regulatory aspects of environmental and occupational health, environmental and occupational epidemiology, environmental and occupational health risk assessment, epidemiology of injury control and violence prevention, epidemiologic methods, principles of maternal and child health. He also developed a graduate certificate program in environmental health with six courses, namely public health and environmental management, occupational health and safety, environmental and occupational toxicology, environmental and occupational health monitoring, environmental and occupational epidemiology, and epidemiology of injury control and violence prevention in the Department of Public Health of Florida International University. He has been a consulting occupational health specialist for 5 years with John Crane International Systems, in Chicago area (Morton Grove). He has been a consulting environmental health risk assessor with USEPA–Region V (Chicago). A native of Rwanda, Africa, he has been a human rights activist determined to promote and protect every human’s right to a decent quality of life and health. His research addresses environmental justice issues such as childhood lead poisoning and asthma. As a result of his study findings, he formed a grass roots non-profit organization known as the Florida Children's Environmental Health Alliance(FAECLP).
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