David Dix, Ph.D. Since May of 2013, Dr. David Dix has served as director of the Office of Science Coordination and Policy (OSCP) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The OSCP provides coordination, leadership, peer review and synthesis of science and science policy for EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. This includes assuring sound scientific decisions and coordinating emerging exposure and hazard assessment topics, such as endocrine disrupting chemicals. Prior to joining OSCP, Dr. Dix was deputy and then acting director of EPA’s National Center for Computational Toxicology in Research Triangle Park, NC, where he led development of high throughput decision support tools for chemical exposure, hazard and risk. Dr. Dix joined EPA’s Office of Research and Development in 1995 as a research biologist, leading studies in reproductive, genomic and computational toxicology. Dr. Dix is an adjunct professor in the department of environmental sciences and engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Illinois, a Ph.D. in physiology from Rush University in Chicago, followed by postdoctoral training at the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. He has published over 120 scientific articles, reviews, reports and book chapters. Dr. Dix also serves on several journal editorial boards and has represented EPA at a wide range of national and international meetings.
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