Douglas Fischer is the executive director of Environmental Health Sciences, which publishes Environmental Health News.
Douglas has spent 30 years in journalism and is passionate about driving science into public discussion and policy on environmental health, justice and climate issues. He joined Environmental Health Sciences, the independent, nonprofit publisher of The Daily Climate and Environmental Health News, in 2008, serving as its executive director since 2017.
Prior to joining EHS, Fischer spent eight years covering the environment for the Oakland Tribune and five years at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Alaska, where, among other roles, he served as the paper’s restaurant reviewer.
He started his journalism career in Newsweek’s Letters Department in New York City. His articles have won international, national and regional awards, among them the International Media Award from Italy's Greenaccord.
In 2006, while at the Oakland Tribune, Fischer published the peer-reviewed results of one of his investigations in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives: “Children Show Highest Levels of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in a California Family of Four: A Case Study.” The article has been cited more than 155 times in other peer-reviewed research.
He lives in Bozeman, Mont., where he is also an adjunct professor at Montana State University and an appointed member of the Bozeman City Commission.
