Benjamin Jelin, PhD., CIH, CSP

Dr. Benjamin Jelin, PhD., CIH, CSP, is the National Director/Principal Scientist for Halliwell Environmental Services, focusing on forensic environmental health consulting.  He is a certified industrial hygienist and certified safety professional. His consulting practice has included exposure/dose reconstruction, risk assessment, product contamination claims assessment, litigation support, and expert testimony services.  He is an Adjunct Professor teaching graduate Human Health Risk Assessment at the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, his alma mater.  He received his doctoral degree from Tulane in 2017 and has been practicing since.   Dr. Jelin’s doctoral research focused on measuring whole-body radiation burdens in children living in the Chernobyl region of Ukraine and its effects on their vitamin D metabolism. His research interests include wildfire exposure quantification and combustion byproduct risk assessment.