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Daniel Boatright


Director Southwest Center for Disaster Preparedness
Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, University of Oklahoma College of Public Health
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
801 Northeast 13th Street, Room 413
Post Office Box 26901
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73190
Tel: (405) 271-2070 Ext.46769
Fax: (405) 271-1971
Daniel-Boatright@ouhsc.edu

http://w3.ouhsc.edu/oeh/boatright.asp

Research Interests:  Dr. Boatright's current interests focus on environmental risk assessment and management techniques and practices.  His research also focuses on environmental risk communication, environmental workforce health, safety policy issues and public health workforce development.

Along with his duties as Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, and Public Health Practice Coordinator, Dr Boatright is Presidential Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health, and serves as Director of the Southwest Center for Public Health Preparedness.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Health (Environmental Health Section) in the United Kingdom, and a member of Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society.

Dr Boatright served six years as Chair of the Environmental and Occupational Health Council and, is presently Chair of the Practice Council, of the Association of Schools of Public Health, and serves on the ASPH Practice Committee.  He Chairs the Advisory Committee of Council Chairs for ASPH, and is Co-Chair of the Centers for Public Health Preparedness group of ASPH. He is a member of the Environment Section Council for the American Public Health Association. Dr Boatright also served three terms with the National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council. He serves on the Public Health Advisory Board of Pfizer Corporation as well as the Board of Public Health Advisors of NSF Corporation.

Dr. Boatright is a Visiting Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and he served four years as Chair of the Oklahoma Governor’s Council on the Environment; he continues to serve on a wide variety of national boards, committees and councils. He is actively involved with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Energy and other federal agencies, working in the area of public health workforce preparedness related to counter-terrorist and threat reduction related to potential biological, chemical, radiological or nuclear events. He holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D., all in environmental health, and has in excess of 33 years experience working with industry, federal and state agencies, and municipalities in all aspects of developing, implementing, and managing effective environmental health and safety management programs.  He joined the College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma in 1990.