Douglas Dockery

Douglas William Dockery is an American epidemiologist and the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

Douglas W. Dockery
Alma materUniversity of Maryland
Known forHarvard Six Cities study
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WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Education

Dockery received his B.S. in physics from the University of Maryland and his M.S. in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, where he submitted a thesis titled "An Analytic Study of the Predictability of the Flow in a Dish-Pan Model of the Atmosphere".[1] Later, he gained an M.S. and DSc in environmental health from the Harvard School of Public Health.[2]

Career

Dockery was appointed an assistant professor at HSPH in 1987, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1990 and full professor in 1998.[2] In 2005, he became chair of the department of environmental health at HSPH.[2] In 2008, he was appointed director of the Harvard-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health Sciences.[2]

Research

In the 1970s and 80s, Dockery led the Harvard Six Cities study, the results of which were published in 1993 in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the study, Dockery and his co-authors (including C. Arden Pope) reported that air pollution was associated with increased mortality.[3] The results of this study have been used by the Environmental Protection Agency as the basis for their regulations on fine particulate matter in 1997,[4] and, as of 2005, was the most-cited air-pollution study ever published.[5] In 2009, Dockery co-authored another study which found that improvements in air quality in 51 American cities had led to life expectancies of people living there increasing by as much as five months.[6][7][8]

References
  1. Dockery, Douglas William (14 August 1972). "An Analytic Study of the Predictability of the Flow in a Dish-Pan Model of the Atmosphere" (PDF). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  2. "Douglas Dockery". HSPH. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  3. Dockery, Douglas W.; Pope, C. Arden; Xu, Xiping; Spengler, John D.; Ware, James H.; Fay, Martha E.; Ferris, Benjamin G.; Speizer, Frank E. (9 December 1993). "An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities". New England Journal of Medicine. 329 (24): 1753–1759. doi:10.1056/NEJM199312093292401. PMID 8179653.
  4. "100 Years of HSPH". Harvard Magazine. 24 October 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  5. Shaw, Jonathan (May 2005). "Clearing the Air". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  6. Pope, C. Arden; Ezzati, Majid; Dockery, Douglas W. (22 January 2009). "Fine-Particulate Air Pollution and Life Expectancy in the United States". New England Journal of Medicine. 360 (4): 376–386. doi:10.1056/NEJMsa0805646. PMC 3382057. PMID 19164188.
  7. Hawksley, Humphrey (12 April 2009). "City air pollution 'shortens life'". BBC News. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  8. Hendrick, Bill (21 January 2009). "Life Expectancy Up, Thanks to Cleaner Air". WebMD. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
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