United States
Leslie Rubin MD is Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, Co-director of the Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Unit at Emory University (PEHSU), and Founder or Break the Cycle of Health Disparities Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. He is involved in the care of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities in multiple settings. His latest publication is: Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Across the Lifespan, Springer 2016.
As Co-director of the Southeast PEHSU with an interest in social, economic and environmental determinants of health, he started a student leadership education program called Break the Cycle of Children’s Environmental Health Disparities to raise awareness of children’s environmental health disparities and cultivate future leaders. Now in its 14th year, there have been over 130 students from 50 university departments in the USA as well as students from Latin America, Europe and Africa, resulting in more than 100 student papers and 10 Books in a Public Health Series.
He has a number of awards the most recent being the Robert E. Cooke Lifetime Achievement Award from the AADMD in 2015, the Children’s Environmental Health Excellence Award from the US EPA in 2016, the Autism Achievement Award from the Annual Conference and Exposition of Georgia in 2016, and the F. Edwards Rushton CATCH Award from the AAP in 2018.
He is actively involved in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) as the Georgia Chapter Chair of the Environmental Health Committee and Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) District 10 Facilitator. He is on the Board of Scientific Counsellors at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) focused on promoting Sustainable Healthy Communities. He is also involved with other local, national and international organizations.
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