David Jacobs
Adjunct Associate Professor
Former Director of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
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1018 SPHPI
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1603 W. Taylor St.
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About
David E. Jacobs, PhD, CIH, is currently adjunct associate professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. With over 120 peer-reviewed papers and more than 20 book chapters, he has conducted studies on health and other effects of green healthy housing, ventilation, asthma, indoor environmental quality, lead poisoning prevention and relationships between science and policy. He is a certified industrial hygienist and a licensed lead risk assessor in Illinois. He is the Chief Scientist at the National Center for Healthy Housing, previous director of the US Collaborating Center on healthy housing for WHO and a faculty associate at Johns Hopkins University. He previously was appointed Director of the Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Housing at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. For more than a decade, he has served as board president of Lincoln-Westmoreland Housing, a non-profit housing provider for more than a hundred low-income families in Washington DC. He is principal author of the 1999 Report to Congress that launched the nation’s Healthy Homes Initiative. He was a contributing author to the international WHO housing and health guidelines in 2018. His first book, "Fifty Years of Peeling Away the Lead Paint Problem: Protecting Our Children's Future with Healthy Housing," was published by Academic Press/Elsevier in 2022. He holds degrees in Environmental Engineering, Technology and Science Policy, Environmental Health, and Political Science.