Joseph Brain (academic)

Joseph David Brain, S.D. (born January 20, 1940) is an American physiologist and environmental health researcher, who is currently the Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he has taught and researched for over fifty years.
Early life.
Brain was born in Paterson, New Jersey and reared in Wayne, New Jersey, and attended Eastern Christian High School in North Haledon, New Jersey, after which he went in 1957 to Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, where he majored in physics. After his graduation from (then) Taylor College, Brain was offered the Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1961-1966) at Harvard.
Career.
Brain is currently the Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. After graduation from Taylor, Brain was offered the Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1961-1966) at Harvard.
He is involved with a five-year collaboration signed between the University of Malaya (UM) and Harvard University in the search for more effective treatment of lung diseases through nanomedicine. Since 1998 he has been Director of the Kresge Center for Environmental Health at Harvard.
Dr. Brain was director of Respiratory Biology Program (1981-1993) and Physiology Program (1993-1997). He was also chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (1990-2005).
Personal life.
Brain is married and lives in Essex, Massachusetts. He served on the Taylor University Board of Trustees from 1988 to 2009.