Douglas M. Brugge is Professor of occupational and environmental health at U Conn and chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences.  He was public health professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston for 25 yrs and for the last 12-15 years most of his research and  work, has been about traffic-related ultrafine particles and their effect on the health of people living near highways.  Doug’s projects have been highly community participatory and have sought to communicate our knowledge to communities, develop interventions and influence policy and practice to reduce risk from this toxin.