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Joseph Shaw, PhD
Associate Professor, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University
Joseph R. Shaw, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean for Research and an Associate Professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He also holds an adjunct appointment in the IU School of Public Health. He served on the US EPA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Science Advisory Panel (2015-2020). Prior to that he was named an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) by the NIEHS in 2010 and recognized as an exceptional talent in the environmental sciences by the Royal Society, UK in 2013 for his work investigating toxicant exposure, genome structure and toxic effects on individuals and populations. Contributing to these efforts he is a founding member of both the Daphnia and Fundulus Genomics Consortia where he helps lead over 600 scientists around the world working to develop new models for environmental genomics. He also co-founded the Environment Care Consortium and the Solve Pollution Network that seek to apply cutting edge technologies to fingerprint complex environmental exposures and their physiological effects with the goal of using this information to defend people’s rights to a healthful environment. His research seeks to operationalize 21st century “canaries in the coal mine” to assess the safety of chemicals and monitor environmental health, realizing that people’s health depends on the health of the environment. He embraces new high-throughput molecular techniques and couples these with evolutionary theory, statistical analysis, and bioinformatics in order to integrate toxic-response across levels of biological organization keying on physiological change in individuals. He works to identify critical, specific, and causative molecular toxicological and disease pathways resulting from complex environmental exposures developing a precision toxicology platform to improve certainty in chemical regulations and provide justice to those bearing the burden of pollution.