Dan Kass is Senior Vice President for Environmental, Climate, and Urban Health at Vital Strategies. His work involves promoting public health engagement to address the leading physical, social, and built environmental contributors to disease and injury. At Vital, he oversees the EH/climate program, lead poisoning prevention programs, the Bloomberg Philanthropies Partnership for Healthy Cities, and the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety. He previously served as the Deputy Commissioner for the Environmental Health at the NYC Department of Health and as Assistant Commissioner for Environmental Surveillance and Policy. He founded and for 12 years directed the Hunter College Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. He has served on Board of Scientific Counselors of the NIEHS National Toxicology Program, EPA’s Pesticide Dialogue Committee, and was Chair of the CDC Board of Scientific Counselors for the NCEH/ATSDR. He holds a Sc.B. degree from Brown University and M.S.P.H degree from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Title of Talk: The global burden of lead poisoning and efforts to address it
Though lead's effects on human development and health have been known for more than a millennium, the true global burden of lead exposure has come into clearer focus over the past decade. The global implications of ongoing and past lead use are significant and born primarily in low- and middle-income countries. This presentation will share the emerging global consensus on lead and describe international efforts to address exposure. Dan will share some of Vital Strategies' work in building the capacity of public health institutions and clinical care providers around the world to understand and respond, and its implications for children's development and reducing premature mortality.
Time: April 22, 2026 12:00 PM Eastern Time
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