Decades of industrial growth have led to an increasingly complex array of manufactured products and by-products to which the public and natural environments are exposed. The health and environmental risks of such exposures have prompted government agencies to regulate and oversee the safety of the materials that the public uses and interacts with, from food and drug products to objects in the surrounding environments. Explorations of scientific and societal foundations for regulation have prompted the development of a new field. The term 'regulatory science' was coined by Alan Moghissi, an editor of this book. Several leaders in regulatory science have contributed to these pages, providing a multidisciplinary overview of the new field and a guide to critical and emerging topics. This introductory work should allow readers to establish a broad understanding of scientific and legislative considerations underlying the rapidly evolving discipline.
Tomoko Y. Steen, PhD, is the director of graduate programs "Biomedical Science Policy and Advocacy" and "Biohazardous Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious Diseases" and a professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University's School of Medicine, USA. She also has an appointment at the Oncology Department of the same institution.
A. Alan Moghissi, PhD, established Regulatory Science as a scientific discipline and is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Medicine, USA. He is also one of the founders of the Environmental Protection Agency, USA. He served as a commissioner of UNESCO and a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Richard Calderone, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus and a pioneering mycologist who has published over 175 peer-reviewed papers. He has worked as a Professor of Microbiology at Georgetown University's School of Medicine for 47 years and has served as the Chair of the Department.
Nyle Hamidi, MS, graduated from Georgetown University's School of Medicine and worked at the Library of Congress, USA. He is a Policy and Data Analyst at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI).
