Dr. David Jacobs is the Director of Research at the National Center for Healthy Housing in the US. He previously worked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as Director of the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, where he was responsible for policy development, grants management, enforcement, public education and training, and research. He wrote the first federal interagency strategy on childhood lead poisoning prevention in the US. He also conceived and won Congressional support for the U.S. Healthy Homes initiative in 1999. He has testified before Congress and other legislative bodies on many occasions and has numerous scientific publications. Dr. Jacobs is also an adjunct associate professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a faculty associate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Director of the World Health Collaborating Center on Healthy Homes Research and Training.
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