J. Peterson Myers, Ph.D., CEO, Environmental Health Sciences

Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT

Free and open to the public.

J. Peterson Myers, the CEO of an organization that promotes public understanding of research that links the environment and human health, will discuss “A Revolution in Environmental Health Sciences: Dragging Regulatory Standards Out of the Jurassic” on Thursday, March 29, at 4 p.m. in Luce Hall on 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

Myers is founder, CEO and chief scientist of the nonprofit Environmental Health Sciences. From 1990-2002, Myers was director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation, which supports efforts to protect the global environment and to prevent nuclear war. In 1996, Myers, Theo Colborn and Dianne Dumanoski co-authored Our Stolen Future, which explores how contamination threatens fetal development. Then-Vice President Al Gore wrote the foreword to the book. Since then, Myers has continued to publish the website, OurStolenFuture.org.

Myers is chair of the board of the National Environmental Trust and the Science Communication Network. He is also on the boards of the Environmental Grantmakers Association, the Jenifer Altman Foundation, the Earth Day Network and the Publication Education Center. He has served as president of the board of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, an association of 40-plus foundations supporting work on biodiversity, climate, energy and environmental health. Myers holds a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley, and lives near Charlottesville, Va.

The free talk is part of the spring series on “The Future of Environmental Quality and Human Health,” which is sponsored by the Johnson Family Foundation. For more information, contact Anna Milkowski (anna.milkowski@yale.edu).