Thomas A. Burke, PhD
Thomas A. Burke, PhD, is the Jacob I. and Irene B. Fabrikant Professor and Chair in Health Risk and Society in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the School of Medicine Department of Oncology. He is also the Director of the Johns Hopkins Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute.
Dr. Burke was nominated by US President Barack Obama to serve as the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development. From January 2015 to January 2017, Dr. Burke was the US EPA Science Advisor and Deputy Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
Dr. Burke’s research interests include environmental epidemiology and surveillance, population exposures to environmental pollutants, risk assessment and communication, and the application of epidemiology and health risk assessment to public policy.
Before joining Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Burke was Deputy Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey and Director of Science and Research for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. He was Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Improving Risk Analysis, which produced the report Science and Decisions, and currently serves as Chair of the Environmental Health Matters Initiative of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Burke received his BS from Saint Peter’s College, his MPH from the University of Texas, and his PhD in epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania.
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