Keeve E. Nachman, PhD, MHS is Science Director for Food Production, Health and Environment at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) located at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH).  His research focuses on determining the environmental, public health and social consequences of industrial food animal production and animal waste management.

Prior to joining CLF, Dr. Nachman served as a toxicologist and risk assessor with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, where he conducted risk assessment for environmental remediation projects under CERCLA and RCRA, including formerly used defense sites (FUDS) and active military sites.  From 2006-2008, Dr. Nachman was an environmental health scientist and postdoctoral fellow in the National Center for Environmental Economics NCEE at the Environmental Protection Agency.  His research at NCEE involved examining the relationship between air quality and health and exposures to fine particulate matter asthma and other respiratory conditions. Dr. Nachman served as a member of the Probabilistic Risk Assessment Workgroup and was a participant in the EPA’s efforts to establish probabilistic methods and uncertainty analyses into the agency’s assessments of environmental risks. As an agency scientist, Dr. Nachman served as a peer reviewer for chemical toxicity assessments (for the Integrated Risk Information System) and regulatory technical and policy documents.

As a doctoral student at JHSPH, Dr. Nachman’s research included assessing risks resulting from the use of arsenic in industrial poultry production. He was a project co-manager and author of  the “Profile of Maryland Environmental Public Health” Report, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which focused on successes and challenges associated with the delivery of environmental health services at the local level as part of the Johns Hopkins Center for Excellence in Community Environmental Health Practice.