James Repace:
CLASS OF 1956
A.B. Davis High SchoolClass of 1956
Mt. vernon, NY
James's Story
I recently published a memoir, Enemy No. 1, Waging The War On Secondhand Smoke
It's available on Amazon Books as a paperback or Epub.
I received this award in 2015 at the ISES Annual Meeting in Tuscon AZ.
CONSTANCE L. MEHLMAN AWARD 2015, International Society of Exposure Science
Myron Mehlman, the Society's first President and former managing editor of the Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, endowed a new ISEA award in 1999 in honor of his late wife, Constance Mehlman, an environmental attorney: In recognition of outstanding contributions in exposure analysis research that helped shape a national or state policy or that provided new approaches for reduction or prevention of exposures.
James L. Repace, MSc., has served, inter alia, as a research physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory and as a senior air policy analyst and the US EPA, and currently consultants at Repace Associates, Inc. He has earned several national awards, including The Surgeon Generals Medallion, A Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Public Health Association, the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institutes Distinguished Professor Award, and the Robert Wood Johnsons Innovators Combating Substance Abuse Award. He has served as a Visiting Clinical Professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine, and as a Consultant to the Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
For over 35 years, James L. Repace has conducted original research measuring, and modeling human exposure to, and risk from, secondhand smoke in a wide variety of locations where people live and work. His work as a researcher, lecturer, and his testimony before the legislatures of ...Expand for more
many countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Rim, has been a prime contributor to a worldwide effort to reduce the exposure of millions of people to secondhand smoke. His early research, published in 1980 in the journal Science, showing that fine particle (PM2.5) concentrations averaged six times higher in buildings where smoking was permitted than in nonsmoking buildings or outdoors, had a major impact on the scientific community. In 1985, he published the first risk assessment of passive smoking and lung cancer in the journal Environment International, estimating 500 to 5000 U.S. lung cancer deaths annually, and developed an exposure-response relationship demonstrating that ventilation could not control secondhand smoke exposures to within an acceptable level of risk. His research had a major public impact around the world, and it became the subject of numerous radio, television, and newspaper interviews and commentaries. In 2004, he published a peer-reviewed monitoring study in JOEM comparing particle levels before and after a statewide smoking ban in six bars, a casino, and a pool hall in Delaware. It showed that 90 to 95 percent of PM2.5 and particulate PAH levels were caused by secondhand smoke, and generated 650 million media impressions around the world, helping to persuade several countries to enact smoke-free workplace laws. James Repace has published 48 peer-reviewed papers on secondhand smoke, earning over 3400 citations. He was one of the first investigators to use portable monitors to measure air pollutants indoors, and his field studies have included measurements of carbon monoxide, particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, nicotine, and air exchange rates.
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