Eric chivian biography

Eric S. Chivian is the founder and director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHGE) at Harvard Medical School,^[1] where he is also an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry.

Life and career

A 1964 graduate of Harvard University (AB, biochemistry), he went on to graduate from Harvard Medical School in 1968.^[2]

Between 1980 and 2000, Chivian was a staff psychiatrist in the MIT Medical Department.^[3] Chivian was the co-founder (with professors Bernard Lown, Herbert L. Abrams, and James E. Muller), treasurer, and member of the board of directors of the organization International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War,^[4] which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for its efforts to highlight the implications of nuclear conflict for global health.^[5] In the mid-1980s, he directed the first scientific survey (under the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the MI