Oct 21, 2021
Pete Myers is founder and Chief Scientist of Environmental
Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization that promotes public
understanding of advances in scientific research on environmental
and human health, especially on how chemical exposure even at low
doses can cause serious adverse effects. He is also a founder and
board member of Sudoc LLC, a chemical company that makes catalysts
that clean up bad stuff and also replace dangerous chemicals used
as disinfectants and cleaners. Sudoc.com.
For a dozen years beginning in 1990, Pete served as Director of the
W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Along with
co-authors Dr. Theo Colborn and Dianne Dumanoski, Myers wrote “Our
Stolen Future,” a best-selling book (1996) that explores the
scientific basis of concern for how contamination threatens fetal
development. Vice-President Al Gore wrote the foreword.
Pete is actively involved in research on the impacts of endocrine
disruption on human health. He is an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
at Carnegie Mellon University. He is on the boards of the Science
Communication Network, the Food Packaging Forum of Zurich, and the
Jenifer Altman Foundation. He has also served as board chair of the
National Environmental Trust and the H. John Heinz Center for
Science, Economics and the Environment.
Over the last few years he has received 2 major national and
international scientific awards: the first “Champion of
Environmental Health Research” award from the U.S. National
Institutes of Health; and the Laureate Award for Outstanding Public
Service from The Endocrine Society.
Myers lives just outside White Hall, Virginia. As he was growing up he lived near Baltimore and in Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Uruguay and Paraguay. Dr. Myers holds a doctorate in the biological sciences from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA from Reed College.
