Lecture: Indoor Burning of Biomass Fuels: The Number One Environmental Cause of Death in the World

William J. Martin II

Join us for the upcoming talk, part of the Public Health Lecture Series, with speaker Dr. William J. Martin II, Dean and Professor, Ohio State University College of Public Health. 

November 21, 2014, 12 noon, in the Tony A. Mobley Auditorium (PH C100)

William J. Martin II joined Ohio State University’s College of Public Health from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he served as associate director for disease prevention and health. Prior to serving at the NICHD, he served as associate director of NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and as its director of the Office of Translational Research, where he led the Head-Off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) study of asthma outcomes in children in post-Katrina New Orleans.

As a physician-scientist in lung injury and repair, he has authored more than 160 research and clinical papers and was an NIH-funded researcher for 24 years. His professional service includes being president of the American Thoracic Society, president of the American Lung Association of Indiana, a member of the Advisory Council for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and a health policy fellow for the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee.