Howard W. Mielke Professor Dr. HOWARD WALTER. MIELKE Tel: 504 988-3889 E-mail: hmielke@tulane.edu.

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Department of Pharmacology, Environmental Signaling Laboratory, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1430 Tulane Avenue SL-8683, New Orleans, LA Phone number 504 988-3889, email: hmielke@tulane.edu.

U.S. Citizen, born: 7 February 1941, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Education and Professional Experiences：

Education:

Ph.D. in geography, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan (1972).

MS in biology, University of Michigan (1967)

BA in biology, minors in chemistry and biology, Macalester College (1963)

Professional Experiences:

Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana. (2013-Present)

Special Government Employee, USEPA, Science Advisory Board to conduct a consultation and peer review of EPA’s draft lead dust technical analyses. (2010-2011)

Research Professor, joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities, New Orleans, Louisiana.(2006-2011)

Full Professor, Xavier University of Louisiana, College of Pharmacy, Division of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, New Orleans, Louisiana.(1998-2006)

Associate Professor, Xavier University of Louisiana, College of Pharmacy, New Orleans, Louisiana. (1988-1998)

1/91- Adjunct Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University Medical Center, (1991)

Research Associate with the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. (1986-1988)

Assistant Professor of geography and environmental studies and visiting Research Scientist, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN.(1979-1986)

Senior Researcher, Maryland Environmental Service/USDA, Waste Management Laboratory, Beltsville, MD. (1979)

Summer Faculty Fellow, Earth Resources Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. (1975-1976)

Assistant Professor of geography, biogeography and climatology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD. (1973-1978)

University of California, Los Angeles, Adjunct Assistant Professor of geography in the Man and the Earth’s Ecosystem Program and biogeography. (1971-1973)

Secondary school teacher of biology and English, Anatolia College, Thessaloniki, Greece. (1966)

US Peace Corps volunteer and teacher at Likuni Boys Secondary School, Lilongwe, Malawi, Africa. (1963-1965)

Traveled to Africa, Middle East, Greece, Turkey, Eastern Europe, North America, Central and South America, Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union, Central Asia, Mauritius (Indian Ocean), Japan, China, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

Professional Society Memberships and Activities:

· American Chemical Society, Division of Environmental Chemistry

· Sigma Xi National Scientific Research Society, New Orleans Chapter.

· Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health. (Life Member since 1986). Co-Chair of the 1993 Annual Conference and the 2007 International Conference on Urban Geochemistry and Health, held in New Orleans.

· Society of Toxicology. Full member status obtained, April 1998.

· Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

· International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment, Founding member.

· Member of the Pediatric Academic Society.

· Invited guest of honor by the Norwegian Geological Survey to present the annual Goldschmidt Lecture, Trondheim, Norway, April 1 – 10, 2000. Delivered one lecture to a specialty group from Nordic countries involved with the conduct of urban geochemistry surveys of major cities in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Also presented a public lecture entitled “Evolving geochemistry of USA cities: Soils as predictors of human metal exposure.”

External Funded Grants:

[1] Ling and Ronald Chen Fund Grants to Lead Lab, Inc. to support Eric Powell and Chris Gonzales in their research studies on the changes in soil lead and children’s blood lead response before and 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, 2014-2017.

[2] Environmental Justice Katrina Heroes Award from A Community Voice, 10 Year Commemoration for his work to bring attention to the lingering issue of lead contamination in the soil of schools, play grounds and daycare centers. Dr. Mielke’s research helped initiate the January 1, 1986 rapid phase-down of leaded gasoline in the U.S. and influenced much of the world’s current lead rules.

[3] HUD to Tulane University, September 2011-September 2014. Filling the knowledge gap on soil lead in New Orleans, $251,900.

[4] Awarded as a 2011 Health Care Hero by New Orleans City Business, May 2011.

[5] Fellow with the Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Engineering (ORISE), March 2010 – February 2011. Worked on writing the Integrated Science Assessment for the national air quality criteria document for lead.

[6] EPA. Appointed to the Science Advisory Board for the lead dust regulations 2010 and 2011.

[7] Grant from the Greater New Orleans Foundation entitled “Safe Environments for Children: Creating Vitality, Resiliency and Sustainability” coauthored by Howard Mielke, Ph.D., CEI, CEC and Tina Covington-Mielke, RN, MN, CCRN, ACNS-BC, CNE. Awarded 24 April 2009.

[8] Continuation award for 18 months from HUD to complete the Recover New Orleans after the project interruption by Hurricane Katrina in the fall of 2005.

[9] Inducted into Leading Health Professionals of the World-2005 in the arena of “urban geochemistry and children’s health” on May 24, 2005. The International Biographical Centre selects the foremost health professionals from all disciplines according to their local, national or international influence.

[10] Listed in the 5th (2004) Edition of Marquis’ Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare.

[11] $693,635 grant to Xavier University from the HUD Lead Technical Study grant for a project entitled Assessing the Impact of Covering Contaminated Residential Soil with Clean Soil in Minority and Impoverished Communities of New Orleans (“Recover New Orleans”) for 30 months from October 2003.

[12] $500,000 cooperative agreement between MHPF and ATSDR for five years (2003-2008) for a project entitled “Multimedia Study of Arsenic, Selenium, Mercury and Molybdenum in Rural and Urban New Orleans. Principle Investigator. Program Director at Xavier Until until flooding by Hurricane Katrina.

[13] $850,000 cooperative agreement between MHPF and ATSDR for five years (1998-2002). A project entitled “Multimedia Study of Manganese and Nickel in Urban and Rural Environments” as the P.I. Also, the Program Director for the Xavier ATSDR projects.

[14] $100,000 grant from DOE for 1997, CBR Analytical Core, Tulane/Xavier University Hazardous Materials in Aquatic Environments of the Mississippi River Basin. Grant #DE-FG01-93EW53023.

[15] $706,623 contract from ATSDR for five years (1993-1997). Appointed Program Director in June, 1994. P.I. for a project entitled “Multimedia Study of Lead, Cadmium, Zinc, and Benzene in Urban Environments.”

[16] $30,000 to Xavier University from a NIEHS P-20 Grant to Xavier/Tulane for a study entitled “Environmental Health Effects in Minority and Other Underserved Populations: Benign Methods for Identifying Lead Hazards at Day Care Centers of New Orleans.” Awarded July 1994.

[17] $38,467 to Xavier University for a grant from DOD to the Xavier/Tulane Center for Environmental Research to conduct research entitled “Biomarkers of Chronic Low Level Radiation Modifications in the Neuro-Immune System’s Response to Environmental Challenges,” Arnold A. Gerall, PI. Awarded May 1994.

[18] $21,750 to Xavier University from DOE for a project entitled “Expert Geographical Information systems for Assessing Hazardous Wastes in Aquatic Environments.” James Regens, PI. Awarded May 1994.

[19] $183,340 grant from DOE for three years entitled “Hazardous Materials in Aquatic Environments in the Mississippi River Basin” Xavier P.I. with Dr. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, P.I. Tulane University. Awarded 1992.

[20] $2,000 grant from Xavier University Environmental Technology and Waste Management Committee for developing community education materials, preparation and printing of a brochure entitled “Lead Poisoning in New Orleans.”

[21] $50,000 grant from Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and N-Viro Inc. to study the safety and feasibility of using sewage sludge to reduce lead bioavailability in urban soils.

[22] Member of the HBCU/MI Consortium Steering Committee that wrote a $4.3 million dollar five year grant from the DOE to the Environmental Technology and Waste Management Consortium. Award announced on September 10, 1990 by Secretary of Energy James Walkins that provided $625,000 for five years from DOE to Xavier University of Louisiana as a consortium member. Dr. Norman Francis, Principal Investigator.

[23] $81,000 grant from the Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund and P.I. for a project entitled “The Urban Toxic Assessment and Mapping Project of New Orleans.” 1989-91.

[24] $100,000 grant from the Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources as P.I. October, 1988 for the Demonstration Cleanup Project in Inner-City Minneapolis. Commenced in the summer of 1990 and conducted by Lead Free Kids, Inc.

[25] $8,000 grant from the City of Saint Paul toward mapping the lead levels of play areas of Saint Paul. Passed by resolution, Saint Paul City Council, May 29, 1986.

[26] $34,000 grant from the Saint Paul Foundation for research on lead levels in plays areas of Saint Paul communities. Yearly matches from June 1984 to 1988 for a total grant of $68,000.

[27] $15,000 National Science Foundation College Science Instrumentation Grant for a project entitled Weather Satellite Connection and Video Facsimile Display System. Awarded June 1, 1985.

Representative Publications (In recent five years):

· Books Chapter:

2016 Mielke, editor, Lead: Risk Analysis and Health Effects. This is a special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health entitled “Lead: Risk Assessment and Health Effects.” The issue is composed 19 manuscripts from 10 countries and provides a glimpse of the global extent of the human lead exposure problem from contaminated water, air and soil.

· Articles:

[1] 2017 Laidlaw, M.A.S., Gabriel M. Filippelli, Sally Brown, Jorge Paz-Ferreiro, Suzie M. Reichman, Pacian Netherway, Adam Truskewycz, Andrew S. Ball, Howard W. Mielke. Case studies and evidence-based approaches to addressing urban soil lead contamination, Applied Geochemistry (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2017.02.015

[2] 2017 Mielke HW, Gonzales CR, Powell ET, Mielke PW Jr. Spatiotemporal exposome dynamics of soil lead and children's blood lead pre- and ten years post-Hurricane Katrina: Lead and other metals on public and private properties in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. Environmental Research 155:208-218.

[3] 2017 Sammy Zahran, Mark A.S. Laidlaw, Dominic B. Rowe, Andrew S. Ball, Howard W. Mielke. Motor neuron disease mortality and lifetime petrol lead exposure: Evidence from national age-specific and state-level age-standardized death rates in Australia. Environmental Research. 153:181-190.

[4] 2016 Katner Adrienne, Pieper Kelsey J., Lambrinidou Yanna, Brown Komal, Hu Chih-Yang, Mielke Howard W., and Edwards Marc A. Weaknesses in Drinking Water Regulations and Public Health Policies that Impede Lead Poisoning Prevention and Environmental Justice. Environmental Justice. Environmental Justice. August 2016, 9(4): 109-117. doi:10.1089/env.2016.0012.

[5] 2016 Mielke HW, Gonzales CR, Powell ET, Mielke PW Jr. Spatiotemporal dynamic transformations of soil lead and children’s blood lead ten years after Hurricane Katrina: New grounds for primary prevention. Environment International. 94: 567-575.

[6] 2016 Mielke HW (editorial). Lead Risk Assessment and Health Effects. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13, 587.

[7] 2016 Laidlaw MAS, Filippelli GM, Sadler RC, Gonzales C, Ball AS, Mielke HW. Children’s Blood Lead Seasonality in Flint, Michigan (USA), and Soil-Sourced Lead Hazard Risks. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13, 358; http://doi:10.3390/ijerph13040358

[8] 2016 Mielke H.W. Nature and extent of metal-contaminated soils in urban environments (Keynote). Environ Geochem Health http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10653-016-9792-6.

[9] 2015 Mark A. S. Laidlaw, Dominic B. Rowe, Andrew S. Ball and Howard W. Mielke. A Temporal Association between Accumulated Petrol (Gasoline) Lead Emissions and Motor Neuron Disease in Australia. Int.J.Environ. Res. Public Health 2015, 12, 16124-16235; http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121215047.

2015 Howard W. Mielke. Soils and Health: Closing the Soil Knowledge Gap. Soil Horizons (17 July 2015):56(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/sh2015-56-4-gc.