Polly Hoppin
Program Director, Environmental Health Program
Email: Polly Hoppin
Phone Number: 978-934-3121
Fax Number: 978-934-2025
Address:
Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
University of Massachusetts Lowell
One University Avenue
Lowell, MA 01854
Biography
Dr. Polly Hoppin directs the Environmental Health Program of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. With a focus on advancing the use of scientific tools for prevention-oriented policy, she helps the health sector address links between environment and health, with particular expertise in asthma.
Polly has more than 25 years experience applying analytical, writing, organizational and leadership skills to environmental and other public health policy issues at the federal level, both the EPA and the US Department of Health and Human Services in New England, and as Senior Advisor to the Secretary’s Science Advisor at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC. She worked in the not-for-profit sector for 15 years prior to joining the Clinton Administration.
Dr. Hoppin's experience includes designing, raising funds for and implementing complex research, education and service projects to inform policy debates and program planning. Current professional activities include serving on the boards of directors of the Center for Whole Communities and Pesticide Action Network North America. In the past, she has had leadership positions in the American Public Health Association and the Massachusetts Public Health Association, and was a founding Board member of Protected Harvest. As Senior Advisor to the Dean of the School of Health and Environment at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2008, she helped drive the vision and mission of the School. Polly received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and a Doctor of Science in Public Health (environmental health sciences and health policy/management) from Johns Hopkins University.
