About Donna's Work

Donna Vorhees serves as Senior Advisor for HEI Energy’s work in providing impartial science about potential population exposures and health effects associated with energy production and energy technologies. She has 25 years of consulting experience, assessing multi-pathway chemical exposures in indoor and outdoor environments, quantifying human health risks, and communicating risks to affected communities in the United States on behalf of government and private clients and internationally on behalf of the United Nations Environment Program. She has served on peer review panels for various organizations, such as the U.S. EPA, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and Health Canada, and on advisory committees, such as National Research Council committees and the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors. Vorhees currently serves as a Switzer Foundation Trustee and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. She received her Sc.M. and Sc.D. in Environmental Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.