Joel Schwartz (born December 12, 1947, in Long Island, New York, United States) is an American epidemiologist, and Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, at Harvard University, School of Public Health.
[1][2] He graduated from Brandeis University with a Ph.D. in 1980.
Schwartz identified the effect on intelligence from the environmental exposure of lead in gasoline, which led to its ban in 1986 by the EPA.
[3] He is a partner of the Michigan Metals Epidemiology Research Group.
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