Jerome A. Paulson, MD is associate professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences and Associate Professor of Prevention & Community Health and Research Associate Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health at the GW School of Public Health & Health Services. Dr. Paulson is one of the co-directors of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment, one of eleven pediatric environmental health specialty units in the US.

Dr. Paulson was a recipient of a Soros Advocacy Fellowship for Physicians from the Open Society Institute and worked with the Children's Environmental Health Network. He has also served as a special assistant to the director of the National Center on Environmental Health of the CDC working on children's environmental health issues.

He has developed a new course for the GW School of Public Health and Health Services - An Introduction to Children's Environmental health and is currently developing the curriculum for a proposed certificate program in Children's Health and the Environment.

Dr. Paulson provides patient care to a diverse group of children and families in a setting that includes managed care, fee-for-service, and Medicaid funding systems. He teaches the practice of general pediatrics to physician's assistants, medical students and pediatric residents. He also teaches in the masters of public health program. His research has focused on the delivery of primary and preventive health care services to children and, more recently, on children's environmental health. He is the editor of the October, 2001 edition of Pediatric Clinics of North America on children's environmental health.

His current public policy activities include education about environmental hazards to children, advocacy for the prevention of lead poisoning, and for the prevention of firearm injuries. He serves on the environmental health committee of Physicians for Social Responsibility and the board of directors of the National Center for Healthy Housing. He has served on the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning; the Steering Committee of the Washington, DC Lead Summit sponsored by the National Lead Information Center; the DC Coalition for Environmental Justice/DC Department of Human Services Lead Poisoning Prevention Bureau Speakers Bureau; the Steering Committee for the Environmental Wellness Initiative of the National Environmental Education Foundation; and as a member of the Benefits Working Group, National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC) for the US Environmental Protection Agency.