Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., Sc.D, L.H.D was recently appointed Founding Dean of the School of Public Health at the City University of New York. He is a former Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health and National Toxicology Program in the US Department of Health and Human Services. He held these positions from 1991 to 2005. Dr. Olden is a cell biologist and biochemist by training and has been active in cancer research for almost four decades. He was Director of the Howard University Cancer Center and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oncology at Howard University Medial School, Washington, D.C. from 1985-1991. Dr. Olden was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University Medical School in Boston from 1970-1974, and was a researcher at the National Cancer Institute of the NIH from 1974-1979. He has published approximately 200 papers, two of which were among the "One Hundred Most Cited "in 1978-1979 and one was later deemed a "citation classic". Dr. Olden was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1994. He was awarded the Meritorious Executive Rank Award and the Distinguished Rank Award by President William J. Clinton in 1996 and 1997, respectively. Dr. Olden was awarded four of the most prestigious awards in public health: The Calver Award in 2002; the Sedwick Medal and Lautenberg Award in 2004, and the Julius B. Richmond Award in 2005. Finally, he was awarded the highly prestigious Princess Takamatsu Cancer Medal by the Japanese Royal Family in 2004.
