David Turcotte is research professor emeritus and director of the Lowell Healthy Homes program and New England Healthy Homes Training Center and a member of the Steering Committee of the Climate Change Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  He has served as Principal Investigator on U. S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funded environmental intervention research grants and also serves as Principal Investigator for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) funded New England Consortium