Robert D Morris, MD, PhD

I am the Founder and CEO of DropCite Inc, an environmental epidemiologist, and a science writer. I have taught at Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard University School of Public Health, and the Medical College of Wisconsin. I have advised the EPA, CDC, NIH and the President’s Cancer Panel. My consulting clients have included Bloomberg, A & E Studios, the History Channel, and the Health Effects Institute. My work has been featured by the New York Times, the London Times, Dateline NBC, and the BBC. My book, The Blue Death, received a Nautilus Gold Award and was named one of the Best Consumer Health Books of 2007 by the American Library Association. My research has focused on air quality, water quality, infectious disease, and meta-analysis. I published the first meta-analysis in environmental epidemiology.

ResearchNow was created in response to the COVID pandemic to ways to connect the research community to discuss and evaluate emerging research in real time, using the full power of vertical social networks coupled with hybrid AI/ML to accelerate open science.

Selected Publications

1. Morris RD. Meta-analysis in cancer epidemiology. EHP, 1994; 102(suppl 8):61-66.

2. Morris RD. Meta-Analysis in Environmental Epidemiology. Health and Environment Digest. 1996; 10:41-44.

3. Morris RD, et al. Chlorination, chlorination by-products and cancer, a meta-analysis. AJPH 1992; 82:955-963.

4. Morris RD, et al. A clinical trials database as a research tool in health care. The Journal of Clinical Trials, Doc No. 14, July 1992.

5. Blair A,et al. Guidelines for Application of Meta-analysis in Environmental Epidemiology. Reg Tox and Pharm1995;22:189-197.

6. Morris RD. Vaccine Mandates, Myocarditis, and Misinformation: A Case Study in the Distortion of Public Health Science During the COVID Pandemic and a Proposal for a Collective Response. Journal of Public Health Policy. In Press.

August 2023