Joseph LaDou

Joseph LaDou (born 1938) is an occupational and environmental medicine physician who practiced in Silicon Valley during the early years of the semiconductor and computer industries. He was appointed the first Chief of the University of California, San Francisco (MC) Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine , and was co-director of the residency program there from 1982-1991.
LaDou was founding editor-in-chief of the ''International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health'', serving in that capacity from 1992 to 2005. LaDou, Joseph. 2020. "A World of False Promises: International Labour Organization, World Health Organization, and the Plea of Workers Under Neoliberalism,"
''International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services'', 50(3):314-323. During the same years, LaDou was director of UCSF's International Center for Occupational Medicine.Miller, Jeff. (1999, January). "Joe LaDou: The Invisible Man," ''UCSF Magazine''.

Career

From 1983 to 2002, in addition to his other responsibilities, LaDou was the director to "Advances in Occupational and Environmental Medicine", a continuing medical education course that trained more than 3,000 physicians (500 from developing countries) in occupational medicine.

LaDou's study of the global migration of hazardous industries has led to efforts to control occupational and environmental hazards. As one example, his study of asbestos in developing countries led to a call for an international ban on asbestos mining and use in commercial products.
Currently, LaDou is Clinical Professor Emeritus at UCSF.

Works

Among LaDou's notable publications:
* LaDou, Joseph, ed. 1986. Special Issue on "The Microelectronics Industry," ''State of the Art Reviews: Occupational Medicine'' 1 (1, January–March). Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus.
* LaDou, Joseph. 2003. "International Occupational Health," ''International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health'' 206:303-313.
* LaDou, Joseph. 2004
"The Asbestos Cancer Epidemic"
''Environmental Health Perspectives'' 112 (3): 285-90.
* LaDou, Joseph. 2006
"Occupational Medicine in the United States: A Proposal to Abolish Workers’ Compensation and Reestablish the Public Health Model,"
''International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health'' 12 (2): 154-168.
* LaDou, Joseph, and John C. Bailar III. 2007
"Cancer and Reproductive Risks in the Semiconductor Industry,"
''International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health'' 13 (4): 376-385.
* LaDou, Joseph, and Sandra Lovegrove. 2008
"Electronics Waste Export,"
''International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health'' 14 (1) :1-10.
* LaDou, Joseph. 2010. "Worker's Compensation in the United States: Cost Shifting and Inequities in a Dysfunctional System," ''New Solutions'' 20 (3): 291-302.
* LaDou, Joseph. 2011
"The European Influence on Workers’ Compensation Reform in the United States"
''Environmental Health'' 10 (1): 103.
* LaDou, Joseph. 2012. "Workers’ Compensation Reform," Int J Occup Environ Health 18 (2): 92-5.
* LaDou, Joseph, Leslie London, and Andrew Watterson. 2018. "Occupational Health: A World of False Promises," ''Environmental Health'' 17 (1): 81. .
* LaDou, Joseph, and Robert J. Harrison, eds. 2021. ''Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Occupational & Environmental Medicine'', 6th ed. McGraw-Hill Medical, New York.

Honors

* Ramazzini Award, conferred by the Collegium Ramazzini, Carpi, Italy, for achievements in the field of occupational medicine, 1998
* Harriet Hardy Award, New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2005

References

Occupational safety and health
Living people
Academic journal editors
1938 births
University of California, San Francisco faculty
Environmental health practitioners
Electronics and the environment
Physicians from California
American non-fiction environmental writers
Activists from California

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