Joseph V. Spadaro

Dr. Joseph Spadaro (Ph.D.) is an environmental research scientist with a focus on methods and software development in the area of health and economic impact assessment of air pollution. He has worked at international organizations including the Basque Centre for Climate Change (Spain), the UN IAEA (Austria), and the Princeton Environment Institute and Argonne National Labs (both in the USA). He has contributed to investigations for the World Bank, C40, OECD, the European Commission and its agencies (including European Environment Agency), and the US Health Effects Institute. He’s a long-term consultant for the World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva and the European Centre for Environment and Health in Bonn, Germany.

Curriculum Vitae

Joseph Spadaro is an Environmental Research Scientist . He has engaged in academic teaching and research in the USA (Princeton Environmental Institute and Argonne National Laboratories), and in Europe (EdM in Paris, IAEA and IIASA in Vienna, and Basque Centre for Climate Change in Spain). Throughout his career, he has also been involved as a research consultant to various private and public institutions, including The World Bank (work in Central Africa and Southeast Asia), World Health Organization (contributor to the projects EMAPEC and HRAPIE-2, and applied work in Europe and the Caribbean and Latin America), the European Commission and its agencies (e.g. HORIZON-Europe funded VALESOR study), OECD, Health Effects Institute (Boston, USA), in collaboration with the Global Burden of Disease Community. Joseph’s interests lie in air/water/soil pollutant transport modelling, health risk and economic cost assessment, uncertainty analysis, cost-benefit analysis of air quality and climate policies that reduce air pollutant emissions, and development of health-economic integrated software tools in support of decision-making (e.g. WHO’s CLIMAQ-H and SUSTRAQ-H tools).