Mark Goldberg is an environmental epidemiologist. He is a full professor in the Department of Medicine, a Medical Scientist at the McGill University Health Centre and is an associate member in a number of other departments, including the McGill School of Environment. He earned his doctorate in epidemiology and biostatistics in 1990. His main interests in research have been in occupational and environmental epidemiology, focusing on environmental and occupational causes of cancer, especially breast cancer, as well as with the long- and short-term health effects on humans from exposures to ambient air pollution. He has a number of ongoing projects in these areas. His current teaching activities are in the McGill School of Environment where he co-teaches, with Peter Brown, Tom Naylor, and Madhav Badami, two graduate courses in environmental policy (ENVR 610 and 630). His concerns with the environment started when he was a teenager in the late 1960s and was sparked by reading the Environmental Handbook. He was involved in the anti-nuclear movement in the 1970s and 1980s where he became, through a circuitous route, interested in epidemiology. He is a fierce defender of rights of other species to exist on planet Earth and believes that population growth and human economic activities are incompatible with life on the planet—climate change is one example of these effects.

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