Dr. Jeffery Foran is Emeritus Professor and the former Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies at the California State University, Sacramento. He is an environmental toxicologist with expertise in human and environmental risk assessment and risk-based decision making. Dr. Foran has served as the Program Director for Environmental Health at the University of Memphis School of Public Health, as the Executive Director of the Midwest Center for Environmental Health and Policy, as the Executive Director of the Risk Science Institute in Washington, DC, and as Assistant/Associate Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health at the George Washington University, among other positions. He has published extensively in the peer reviewed literature, written or edited four books, and he continues to teach Environmental Toxicology and Introduction to Environmental Science at CSUS.