Daniel Hryhorczuk is Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Epidemiology at the University of Illinois School of Public Health. He is the former Director of the Great Lakes Centers for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health. Dr. Hryhorczuk has been engaged in collaborative research and capacity building in public health in Ukraine for the past two decades. His projects include “Family and Children of Ukraine”, a birth cohort study in Kyiv, Dniproderzhinsk, and Mariupol that serves as data management support to the U.S.-Ukrainian study of thyroid cancer in children following the Chornobyl accident. He is Visiting Professor in Public Health at NaUKMA and has served as a consultant to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and the World Bank. Dr. Hryhorczuk is a full international member of the Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences.  He is an accomplished author and published the novels “Caught in the Current”, “Myth and Madness”, and “Amerikana”.