Daniel Greenbaum

President and Chief Executive Officer of Health Effects Institute (HEI)

Dan Greenbaum joined the Health Effects Institute (HEI) as its President and Chief Executive Officer in 1994. In that role, Greenbaum leads HEI’s efforts, supported jointly by the EPA and industry, with additional funding from the Department of Energy, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Agency for International Development, the Asian Development Bank, and foundations, to provide public and private decision makers with high quality, impartial, relevant and credible science about the health effects of air pollution. Greenbaum has focused HEI’s efforts on providing timely and critical research and reanalysis on particulate matter, air toxics, diesel exhaust and alternative technologies and fuels. Greenbaum currently serves on the U.S. National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Consumption. He has been a member of the NRC Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology and Vice Chair of its Committee for Air Quality Management in the United States. Greenbaum also chaired the EPA Blue Ribbon Panel on Oxygenates in Gasoline, which issued the report “Achieving Clean Air and Clean Water” and EPA’s Clean Diesel Independent Review Panel, which reviewed technology progress in implementing the 2007 Highway Diesel Rule. Before coming to HEI, he was Commissioner of Environmental Protection in Massachusetts.

Publications

Science for Policy Project, Science for Policy Project - Panel Members