Urvashi Rangan, PhD, leads the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports. She is responsible for managing risk analysis, policy assessments, label evaluations and consumer advice for tests, reports, and related advocacy work. Urvashi earned her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1995. Since 1999, she has worked for Consumer Reports where she developed the ratings system, database, and website Eco-labels.org for evaluating environmental and food labels. In 2005, she managed the launch of GreenerChoices.org, which covers green aspects over a wide range of products and services.

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Public Health: On the Inside takes listeners to the frontlines of public health to meet interesting people working in the field.

As the 21st commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Margaret A. Hamburg, MD, discusses her commitment to strengthening programs and policies that protect and promote public health.

Service-Learning - A Real-World Lesson

Leveraging Science to Keep America Safe

A global advocate for HIV prevention, Ruben del Prado, MD, MPH ’88 is a country coordinator for the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in Nepal and Bhutan. del Prado discusses working on the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the importance of taking risks and remaining fearless in the pursuit of advancing public health.

The Risk Taker

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair, Deborah A. P. Hersman, discusses the impact drunk driving has on our nation’s health, and the high cost of injury and deaths attributed to alcohol-impaired related crashes.

The High Cost of Impaired Driving

Lawrence Wissow, MD, MPH ’84, bridges the gap between clinical medicine and public health as he works to address the mental health needs of children and improves how doctors communicate with their patients.

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