Sheldon Krimsky is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University

Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...

, and adjunct professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Tufts University School of Medicine

Tufts University School of Medicine

The Tufts University School of Medicine is one of the eight schools that constitute Tufts University. Located on the university's health sciences campus in the Chinatown district of Boston, Massachusetts, the medical school has clinical affiliations with thousands of doctors and researchers in the...

. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center

Hastings Center

The Hastings Center, founded in 1969, is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit bioethics research institute based in the United States. It is dedicated to the examination of essential questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment...

, an independent bioethics research institution.

Krimsky received his bachelors and masters degrees in physics from Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...

 and Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

 respectively, and a masters and doctorate in philosophy at Boston University

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

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Editorial and Advisory Positions

• Accountability in Research - Associate Editor
• Science, Technology and Human Values - Editorial Advisory Board Member
• Journal of BioLaw and Business - Life Sciences Advisory Board Member
• Human Gene Therapy - former Advisory Board Member
• New Genetics and Society - International Editorial Board Member
• Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
  Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
  Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy is a MEDLINE-indexed, peer-reviewed, international journal publishing review articles and original papers on newly approved/near to launch compounds, covering all therapy areas....
  
   - Editorial Board Member
• Council for Responsible Genetics
  Council for Responsible Genetics
  The Council for Responsible Genetics is a non-profit NGO with a focus on biotechnology.- History :The Council for Responsible Genetics was founded in 1983 in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
  
   (publishing GeneWatch) - Chair, Board of Directors
• International Journal of Environmental Technology & Management - Editorial Board Member
• Public Library of Science
  Public Library of Science
  The Public Library of Science is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license...
  
   - Member, Medicine Advisory Group on Competing Interests and Publication Ethics
• National Institutes of Health
  National Institutes of Health
  The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
  
   - former member (1978–1981), Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee
• Presidential Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research - former consultant
• Congressional Office of Technology Assessment - former consultant
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
  American Association for the Advancement of Science
  The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...
  
   - former chair (1988–1992), Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
• Hastings Center on Bioethics - fellow
• American Association of University Professors
  American Association of University Professors
  The American Association of University Professors is an organization of professors and other academics in the United States. AAUP membership is about 47,000, with over 500 local campus chapters and 39 state organizations...
  
   - member, Committee A
• American Civil Liberties Union
  American Civil Liberties Union
  The American Civil Liberties Union is a U.S. non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litigation, legislation, and...
  
  - member of a study panel that formulated a policy on civil liberties and scientific research

Publications

Books:

• Genetic Alchemy: The Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy (MIT Press, 1982)
• Biotechnics and Society: The Rise of Industrial Genetics (Praeger, 1991)
• Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
• Science in the Private Interest: Has the lure of profits corrupted biomedical research? (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2003)

Co-authored Books:

• Environmental Hazards: Communicating Risks as a Social Process (Auburn House, 1988)
• Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment: Science, Policy and Social Values (University of llinois, 1996)

Co-edited Books:

• Social Theories of Risk (Praeger, 1992)
• Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age: Why We Need a Genetic Bill of Rights (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005)