Boston University School of Public Health

Professor Clapp is an epidemiologist with over forty years of experience in public health practice and consulting. He became a full-time faculty member in the Department of Environmental Health in 1993 and retired in 2010. He has an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and a DSc in Epidemiology from BUSPH. He worked in state and local health departments, as director of a community health center, a statewide childhood lead poisoning prevention program, the Massachusetts Cancer Registry, and an environmental health consulting group at JSI Research and Training Institute. His research has focused on cancer in military veterans and in workers and communities with toxic or radiation hazards. He has worked on community-based research in New England and pesticide health effects research in South Africa. He co-taught EH745, EH757, EH780, EH806 and EH810 and lectured in other courses at Boston University and other universities. He was co-chair of the steering committee of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and served on several other professional advisory committees.

Media Coverage:

(International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, July/Sept. 2007)  IBM, Elsevier Science, and Academic Freedom  

Read stories about Richard Clapp:

• Pointing Fingers and Naming Names: "Poisoned Profits" Indicts Big Business for Polluting the Environment and Harming Children’s Health
  
• Clapp Receives International Research Integrity Award for Standing Up to Special Interests
• Clapp Recognized by Silicon Valley Environmental Group
• Clapp, Other Experts Say Obama Cancer Plan Should Emphasize Prevention
• Clapp on YouTube: A Wake-up Call to Combat Climate Change

Clapp R. Industrial Carcinogens: A Need for Action. Rev Environ Health 2009;24(4):257-262.

Clapp R. The Love Canal Story is Not Finished. Environ Health Perspect 2009; 117(2):A54.

Clapp RW, Hoffman K. Cancer mortality in IBM Endicott plant workers, 1969-2001: an update on a New York production plant. Environmental Health 7:13, 2008.

Clapp R, Jacobs M, Loechler E. Environmental and occupational causes of cancer: New evidence 2005-2007. Rev Environ Health 23:1-37, 2008.

Clapp R. Mortality among employees of a large computer manufacturing company, 1969-2001. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2006 (posted Oct. 19, 2006).

Clapp R, Hoppin P, Kriebel D. Erosion of the integrity of public health science in the USA. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2006;6: 367-368.

Clapp R, Howe G, Jacobs M. Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer - Revisited. Journal of Public Health Policy 2006;61-76.

Clapp R Nuclear power and public health Environ Health Perspect 2005; 113(11):A720-21.

Clapp R and Ozonoff D. Environment and Disease: Vital Intersection or Contested Territory. Am J Law Med 2004;2/3 18-215.