John Adgate

John L. Adgate, Ph.D is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado.  His exposure science research focuses on improving public health and epidemiological studies by documenting the magnitude and variability of human exposure to air pollutants, pesticides, metals, and allergens.  His research projects have included evaluation of methods to reduce lead and allergen exposure exploration of longitudinal exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollutants, and, most recently, assessing the environmental and human health impacts of unconventional oil and gas development and the impact of climate change on indoor environments.

Dr. Adgate has served on multiple U.S.EPA Science Advisory Panels exploring technical and policy issues related to residential exposure to pesticides, metals, and implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996. He was also a member of US Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Research Ethics in Housing Related Health Hazard Research in Children and the National Research Council’s 2011 Committee on Indoor Air and Climate Change.  Most recently he has advised the States of New York, Maryland, and Michigan on the potential public health impacts of high volume hydraulic fracturing, and leading studies exploring the public health impacts of hydraulic fracturing funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Department of Energy. His current research is focused on characterizing the exposures and impacts of the wide range of chemical and non chemical stressors found in and around oil and gas development sites and indoor air and climate change funded by USEPA.

Dr. Adgate received a B.Sc. in biology from Calvin College, an M.S.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences jointly awarded by Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He has held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota and has current appointments at the University of Colorado Denver and Colorado State University.  In 2006-7 he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, where he taught risk analysis and worked on air quality research.  He has served as an elected Councilor of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES), was a recipient of its Joan M. Daisey Outstanding Young Scientist Award, and co-chaired ISES’s 2009 meeting.  He has taught graduate level courses on Risk Analysis and Communication, Advanced Methods in Exposure Science, Introduction to Environmental and Occupational Health, and Occupational Health and Safety.