John D. Beard is an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He teaches courses in environmental health and disaster response and emergency preparedness. His research focuses on occupational and environmental risk factors for neurological and mental health diseases and health effects of temperature inversions and air pollution. Before working at BYU, he was a Lieutenant in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and Research Officer at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a pre-doctoral fellow, special volunteer, and intern at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and an environmental epidemiologist at the Utah Department of Health. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from BYU in Statistics and Public Health, respectively, and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
