Tara O'Toole
From SourceWatch
Dr. Tara O'Toole, M.D., M.P.H., [1] is a member of the Board of Advisors at ANSER Institute for Homeland Security.
"Dr. O'Toole is currently the Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies and a member of the faculty of the School of Hygiene and Public Health. The Center, sponsored by the Hopkins Schools of Public Health and Medicine, is dedicated to informing policy decisions and promoting practices that would help prevent the use of biological weapons.
"She is a member of the Defense Science Board summer panel on biodefense technologies, and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene steering group on public health response to WMD events, among other advisory and consultative positions related to bioterrorism preparedness. In 1993, Dr. O'Toole was nominated by President William Jefferson Clinton to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment Safety and Health and served in this position until 1997.
"From 1989-1993, Dr. O'Toole was a Senior Analyst at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) where she directed and participated in studies of health impacts on workers and the public due to environmental pollution resulting from nuclear weapons production, among other projects. She has served as a consultant to industry and government in matters related to occupational and environmental health, worker participation in workplace safety protection, and organizational change. She is a Board-certified internist and occupational medicine physician with clinical experience in academic settings and community health centers.
"Dr. O'Toole received her Bachelors degree from Vassar College; her MD from the George Washington University and a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Yale, and a fellowship in occupational and environmental medicine at Johns Hopkins University."
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