Duke Prof Appointed to National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council

Randall A. Kramer, professor of environmental economics and global health at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and deputy director of the Duke Global Health Institute, has been appointed by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to serve on the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council. The council advises the secretary, the director of the National Institutes of Health and director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences on scientific program priorities related to environmental health research. Kramer will serve a three-year term.