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Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health C Biographic Sketches of Committee Members and Staff John D. Spengler, PhD (Chair), is the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation in the Department of Environmental Health of Harvard University's School of Public Health. He has conducted research in personal monitoring, air-pollution health effects, aerosol characterization, and indoor air. More recently, Dr. Spengler has been involved in research that includes the integration of knowledge about indoor and outdoor air pollution and other risk factors into the design of housing, buildings, and communities. He uses the tools of life-cycle analysis, risk assessment, and activity-based costing to measure the sustainable attributes of alternative designs, practices, and community development. Dr. Spengler has served as an adviser to the World Health Organization on indoor air pollution, personal exposure, and air-pollution epidemiology. He serves on the Institute of Medicine Roundtable for Environmental Health and recently chaired a National Research Council Committee on Green Schools. In 2003, Dr. Spengler was the recipient of the Heinz Award for the Environment; in 2008, he was honored by the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate Academy of Fellows with the Max von Pettenkofer award for distinguished contributions to the field of indoor-air science. He received a BS in physics from the University of Notre Dame, an MS in environmental health sciences from Harvard University, and a PhD in atmospheric sciences from the State University of New York-Albany. John L. Adgate, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Denver. His research on exposure assessment, risk 267 Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.