Professional
Conrad Daniel Volz, DrPH, MPH
Co-Director, Environmental Assessment & Control Division
Dan Volz, DrPH, MPH joined the faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) in March 2004. He has 30 years of experience in environmental exposure assessment, fate and transport of contaminants, and hazard and risk communication. After holding progressively responsible posts in private industry (National Steel Corporation), government (California OSHA Consultation Service), and non-governmental agencies (Western Institute for Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences), Dr. Volz started Volz Environmental Services, an environmental health consulting company, in 1984. He has performed environmental consulting services for private industry and federal governments in 24 different countries on five continents.
Dr. Volz is Co-Director of the Division of Environmental Assessment, Monitoring and Control at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute’s Center for Environmental Oncology. Dr Volz’s research interests are primarily focused on how industrial toxins move through the air, water, soil, and groundwater to reach people and how to block this movement. Dr. Volz is the Principal Investigator for projects to increase lung function in children with environmentally induced asthma and to measure the amount of heavy metals, including mercury, as well as estrogenicity in fish in the Three Rivers Area. He was Director of the 2005 Amchitka Expedition to determine radionuclide concentrations in marine life and the risk to commercial fishing operations from underground nuclear test shots fired on the island during the Cold War. At GSPH he is Scientific Director for the Center for Healthy Environments and Communities and a Co-Investigator in the new CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking-Center of Excellence.
