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Join RETCC Director Susan Korrick in a conversation with Jack McCarthy, ScD, CIH, CEO and co-founder of Environmental Health & Engineering, Inc, and Laurel Schaider, PhD Senior Research Scientist at Silent Spring Institute, as they talk about their inspiring career trajectories. Join via Zoom...
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John “Jack” McCarthy is CEO and co-founder of Environmental Health & Engineering, Inc (Newton MA), an environmental and engineering consultation firm that works with healthcare systems, private corporations, government, and non-profit organizations to improve health and safety and their operational performance. Jack is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts in exposure assessment, product evaluation, and health impacts of indoor environments. He has been the Principal-in-Charge for numerous federal studies for entities such as the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has supported the US Surgeon General’s office. Jack has or currently serves as a consultant to the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Energy Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the World Health Organization, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has a BS in Biology from Boston College, and an MS in Environmental Health Sciences and a ScD in Environmental Science and Physiology from Harvard.
Laurel Schaider, PhD is a Senior Scientist at Silent Spring Institute, where she leads the Institute’s water quality research on highly fluorinated chemicals (PFAS) and other contaminants of emerging concern. Her research focuses on characterizing PFAS exposures from drinking water, understanding health effects associated with PFAS, identifying other sources of PFAS exposure and working with communities to develop research studies and resources to address their concerns. Dr. Schaider is the principal investigator for the PFAS-REACH (PFAS Research, Education, and Action for Community Health) study, a researcher-community partnership that is evaluating PFAS exposures and immune system effects in children in communities with PFAS water contamination and developing an online resource center for PFAS-affected communities. As co-leader of the Community Engagement Core for the STEEP (Sources, Transport, Exposure and Effects of PFAS) Superfund Research Program at the University of Rhode Island, she is leading a study to evaluate PFAS levels in private wells on Cape Cod and identify contamination sources. Prior to joining Silent Spring, she was a research associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she studied heavy metal contamination and exposures in affected communities. Dr. Schaider earned her MS and PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and an SB in Environmental Engineering Science from MIT.