Hunt, Vilma R.

Dentist, scientist, researcher, writer, environmental activist and feminist, Vilma Rose (Dalton-Webb) Hunt was born in 1926 in Sydney, Australia. She received her A.M. in physical anthropology from Radcliffe College (1958) and was a scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study (1961-1963). Affiliated with the Harvard School of Public Health (1962-1966), Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois (1963), and the John B. Pierce Foundation Laboratory in New Haven, Conn. (1966-1969), Hunt taught environmental health at Yale University School of Medicine (1967-1969) and Pennsylvania State University (1969-1972 and 1982-1985). During the 1970s she was Deputy Assistant Administrator for Health Research in the Office of Research and Development in the Environmental Protection Agency and served on the EPA's Science Advisory Board. Since her retirement from PSU in 1985 she has served as a consultant in environmental and occupational health, lecturing widely both in the United States and abroad. She is the author of The Health of Women at Work (1977).

From the description of Papers, 1952-1993 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122565958

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