John D. Graham

 

NSF International, a global public health and safety organization, has appointed John D. Graham, Ph.D., dean of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, to its board of directors.

Dr. Graham has a distinguished record in the related fields of risk analysis, management and communication. He served for seventeen years as a faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he founded and led the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. The Center is recognized globally for its work on environmental protection, injury prevention and medical technology. Earlier in his career, he served as staff associate to Chairman Howard Raiffa’s Committee on Risk and Decision Making of the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 1995 Dr. Graham was elected President of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) where he organized the first World Congress on Risk Analysis with representatives from Europe, Japan, China, Australia, Canada and the United States. As a scholar, he is best known for comparing the costs and effectiveness of 500 lifesaving programs in medicine, public health and environmental health.

Dr. Graham left Harvard in 2001 when President George W. Bush nominated him to serve as Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Office of Management and Budget. As a Senate-confirmed official (2001-2006), he led the statistical and regulatory-review activities of the federal government and fostered new regulations that saved lives, prevented disease and advanced environmental protection. He also played a pioneering role in new collaborative efforts at regulatory coordination between the European Union and the United States.

In 2008, Dr. Graham assumed the Deanship of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs (Bloomington and Indianapolis), one of the largest public affairs schools in the US.

“We are very happy to welcome Dr. John Graham to the NSF International Board of Directors,” said NSF Board Chair Richard Rabbideau. “John shares NSF’s commitment to protecting and improving human health and the environment, and his wealth of expertise in disease and injury prevention as well as risk and policy analysis will be invaluable as we continue to expand our public health mission on a global scale.”

“I am delighted to join NSF International, which has a vital protective mission and is expanding operations throughout the world,” adds Graham.

Read the announcement in its entirety, here.