Herman Jones Gibb

Dr. Herman J. Gibb, Ph.D., B.S., M.P.H. is a is an epidemiologist based in Washington D.C. Metro Area. He has extensive background in health risk assessment. He did his Bachelors from Pennsylvania State University in 1977. Dr. Gibb has a Ph.D. in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins and an M.P.H. in environmental health from the University of Pittsburgh. He has over 30 years of experience in health risk assessment and has provided expert consultation to a variety of international and national clients. He is a Scientific Advisor on Risk Assessment for the European Commission. He chairs the World Health Organization’s Foodborne Epidemiology Reference Group’s (FERG) Chemical Task Force. Dr. Gibb is the President of Gibb Epidemiology Consulting which he founded in April 2014. He was also the former President of Tetra Tech Sciences, an operating unit of the Tetra Tech Corporation specializing in health risk assessment. Prior to Tetra Tech Sciences, Dr. Gibb served in the positions of Associate Director for Health and Assistant Center Director at the National Center for Environmental Assessment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. At EPA, he was the Project Officer for EPA’s cooperative agreements with the World Health Organization. He directed EPA’s assessment of inhalation exposures and potential health risks to the general population that resulted from the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers. He was the recipient of the EPA’s Scientific and Technological Achievement Award for his study of lung cancer mortality and clinical irritation among chromate production workers and the recipient of the EPA’s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service for his work on the drinking water standard for arsenic. He is an author of the World Health Organization’s Environmental Health Criteria Document on Principles for the Assessment of Risks to Human Health from Exposure to Chemicals and the World Health Organization’s Environmental Health Criteria Document on Arsenic and Arsenic Compounds. He is a member of International Society of Environmental Epidemiology and Presidential Advisory Board on Science, Engineering, and Health at the Ana G. Mendez University System in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the Advisory Committee of the United States Transuranium and Uranium Registry. He serves as a Professorial Lecturer in Environmental and Occupational Health and Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at the George Washington University Medical Center. He also received the 2011 Practitioner of the Year Award from the Society for Risk Analysis.