Richard "Dick" Clapp is an American epidemiologist who is an adjunct professor at the

University of Massachusetts Lowell The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell and UML) is a public research university in Lowell, Massachusetts, with a satellite campus in Haverhill, Massachusetts. It is the northernmost member of the University of Massachusetts public u ...

and an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Health at

Boston University School of Public Health Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) is one of the graduate schools of Boston University. Founded in 1976, the School offers master's- and doctoral-level programs in public health. It is located in the heart of Boston University's Me ...

. Clapp was Director of the Massachusetts Cancer Registry from 1980 until 1989 and Co-Chair of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility. Clapp earned a bachelor's degree in biology from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

(1967) a M.P.H., in health services from

Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard- MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's firs ...

(1974), and received his D.Sc., Epidemiology, from

(BUSPH) in 1989. He began teaching at BUSPH in 1992 as an assistant professor of environmental health. In 2004, Clapp became a "senior environmental health scientist at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts–Lowell, where he conducts and supervises epidemiologic data analyses, literature reviews, and technical assistance in community-based environmental health studies." His awards include being named the 2001 "Public Scientist of the Year" by the Association for Science in the Public Interest, and a 2018 Alumni Award of Merit from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Alumni Association.

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