Dr. Richard Jackson chaired the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Health and served 15 years at the CDC, where he established the National Asthma Epidemiology and Control Program and advanced the childhood lead poisoning prevention program. He is the founder of the Designing Healthy Communities Project, which examines the connection between poor community design and burgeoning health costs based upon key public health indices including obesity, diabetes, heart, asthma, cancer and depression.