In the Wake of Dobbs
Is IVF the Next Target for the Morality Police?
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Dr. Adam Finkel
Adam Finkel is a resident of Dalton, NH and Princeton, NJ. He served in leadership positions in both the Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations aimed at promulgating and evaluating risk-based regulations to protect the nation’s workers from chemical, radiological, and biological hazards. He has a Master's Degree in public policy from the JFK School of Government at Harvard and a Doctorate in Environmental Health Science from Harvard as well. In the past few years, he has jumped into important New Hampshire issues including the efforts to stop the placement of a landfill in the area adjacent to Forest Lake in Dalton as well as other local efforts to protect the NH environment.
His concern over the ramifications of the Dobbs decision of the US Supreme Court regarding In Vitro Fertilization has started to consume additional attention of his time because he is concerned that it may be the next target of the fundamentalist forces that have gained control of the Court.
Dr. Adam M. Finkel is a Clinical Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the
University of Michigan School of Public Health, and is also an independent consultant
specializing in plaintiffs’ exposure to toxicants in the workplace and general environment.
From 2008 to 2017, he was Executive Director of the Penn Program on Regulation, where
he was also a Senior Fellow at the Penn Law School. From 2004 to 2008, he was a Visiting
Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton
University, and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the UMDNJ School
of Public Health. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Finkel was Regional Administrator for the U.S.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in Denver, Colorado, responsible
for OSHA’s regulatory enforcement, compliance assistance, and outreach activities in the
six-state Rocky Mountain region (Region VIII). Prior to that (1995-2000), he was Director
of Health Standards Programs at OSHA headquarters, and was responsible for
promulgating and evaluating risk-based regulations to protect the nation’s workers from
chemical, radiological, and biological hazards.
Dr. Finkel holds an Sc.D. in environmental health sciences from the Harvard School
of Public Health, a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School
of Government, an A.B. in biology from Harvard College, and is a Certified Industrial
Hygienist. Dr. Finkel has pioneered methodological improvements in human health risk
assessment and cost-benefit analysis for the past 30 years, primarily in the areas of
quantitative uncertainty analysis, accounting for interindividual variability in
susceptibility, and designing regulatory processes to maximize stakeholder input and shed
light on inequitable health, economic, and employment impacts. He is one of three scholars
who served on both the “Blue Book” (1994) and “Silver Book” (2009) committees of the
National Academy of Sciences convened to evaluate EPA’s risk assessment methods. He is
co-author of four books, including the 2014 volume Does Regulation Kill Jobs? (Univ. of
Pennsylvania Press). In 2006, he received the David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public
Health from the American Public Health Association, for “a career in advancing science in
the service of public health protection.” In 2013, he received the Alumni Leadership in
Public Health Practice award from the Harvard School of Public Health. He lives in
Pennington, New Jersey, with his wife (a clinical psychologist) and 21-year-old daughter;
he is also a professional singer and choral conductor.
Links and Notes
https://indepthnh.org/2022/09/16/landfill-setback-legislation-re-filed-day-after-veto-override-failed-in-n-h-senate/
https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/finkel-adam.html
Preview attachment AFinkel op-ed concord NH 82820 OSHA.pdf
https://nhsecrets.blogspot.com/2022/10/in-wake-of-dobbs-is-ivf-next-target-for.html
https://centristchange.blogspot.com/2022/10/ep-75-adam-finkel-in-wake-of-dobbs.html
In the Wake of Dobbs
Is IVF the Next Target for the Morality Police?
Dr. Adam Finkel
Adam Finkel is a resident of Dalton, NH and Princeton, NJ. He served in leadership positions in both the Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations aimed at promulgating and evaluating risk-based regulations to protect the nation’s workers from chemical, radiological, and biological hazards. He has a Masters Degree in public policy from the JFK School of Government at Harvard and a Doctorate in Environemtnal Health Science from Harvard as well. In the past few years he has jumped into important New Hampshire issues including the efforts to stop the placement of a landfill in the area adjacent to Forest Lake in Dalton as well as other local efforts to protect the NH environment.
His concern over the ramifications of the Dobbs decision of the US Supreme Court regarding In Vitro Fertilization have started to consume addition attention of his time because he is concerned that it may be the next target of the fundamentalist forces that have gained control of the Court.
Dr. Adam M. Finkel is a Clinical Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the
University of Michigan School of Public Health, and is also an independent consultant
specializing in plaintiffs’ exposure to toxicants in the workplace and general environment.
From 2008 to 2017, he was Executive Director of the Penn Program on Regulation, where
he was also a Senior Fellow at the Penn Law School. From 2004 to 2008, he was a Visiting
Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton
University, and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the UMDNJ School
of Public Health. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Finkel was Regional Administrator for the U.S.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in Denver, Colorado, responsible
for OSHA’s regulatory enforcement, compliance assistance, and outreach activities in the
six-state Rocky Mountain region (Region VIII). Prior to that (1995-2000), he was Director
of Health Standards Programs at OSHA headquarters, and was responsible for
promulgating and evaluating risk-based regulations to protect the nation’s workers from
chemical, radiological, and biological hazards.
Dr. Finkel holds an Sc.D. in environmental health sciences from the Harvard School
of Public Health, a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School
of Government, an A.B. in biology from Harvard College, and is a Certified Industrial
Hygienist. Dr. Finkel has pioneered methodological improvements in human health risk
assessment and cost-benefit analysis for the past 30 years, primarily in the areas of
quantitative uncertainty analysis, accounting for interindividual variability in
susceptibility, and designing regulatory processes to maximize stakeholder input and shed
light on inequitable health, economic, and employment impacts. He is one of three scholars
who served on both the “Blue Book” (1994) and “Silver Book” (2009) committees of the
National Academy of Sciences convened to evaluate EPA’s risk assessment methods. He is
co-author of four books, including the 2014 volume Does Regulation Kill Jobs? (Univ. of
Pennsylvania Press). In 2006, he received the David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public
Health from the American Public Health Association, for “a career in advancing science in
the service of public health protection.” In 2013, he received the Alumni Leadership in
Public Health Practice award from the Harvard School of Public Health. He lives in
Pennington, New Jersey, with his wife (a clinical psychologist) and 21-year-old daughter;
he is also a professional singer and choral conductor.
Links and Notes
https://indepthnh.org/2022/09/16/landfill-setback-legislation-re-filed-day-after-veto-override-failed-in-n-h-senate/
https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/finkel-adam.html
Preview attachment AFinkel op-ed concord NH 82820 OSHA.pdf
