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Dr. Hunt joined SSDS in 2008 as a Senior Research Scientist. His current work is focused on a major study of long-term outcomes in disabled Army veterans, under a grant from the Department of Defense.
Dr. Hunt has over twenty years of experience in occupational, environmental, and public health. He has substantial experience working with large data sets, such as Massachusetts Statewide inpatient hospitalization and emergency department data sets and State of New Hampshire Medicaid and health insurance claims data. Projects have included an analysis of inpatient end-of-life care expenditures in New Hampshire, geographical differences in health care utilization across private and public health insurance programs in New Hampshire, and a number of exploratory studies of the use of administrative health care data sets for Occupational Health Surveillance. He managed and conducted the exposure assessment for a community-based, nested case-control study of work-related asthma and designed and implemented the internal reliability and validity studies. Early in his career Dr. Hunt worked for engineering consulting firms, primarily serving US Federal and State agencies in conducting hazardous waste site investigation and clean-up activities, including preparation of environmental and human health risk assessments, design of occupational health control measures, and oversight of construction and remediation activities.
Dr. Hunt has taught Occupational Exposure Assessment for Epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Environment Health at Tufts University. He is a member of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA II) Manufacturing Sector Council.
Dr. Hunt earned a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in Occupational Epidemiology with minors in Industrial Hygiene and Work Environment Policy. He received his MS in Environmental Health Science from New York University and a BA in Biology from Vassar College. Dr. Hunt has been a Certified Industrial Hygienist since 1988.