Jennie M RatcliffeJennie M. Ratcliffe is an environmental research epidemiologist, activist, and Quaker. Her lifelong concern has been to make connections between peace, justice and ecological sustainability as interdependent spheres of morality, spirituality and socil responsibility; to integrate thinking and practice in science, religion, and ethics; and to join inward contemplation with outward action. After completing a Master's degree in pollution studies at Manchester University, a doctorate in environmental epidemiology and postdoctoral research in toxicology at the University of London in the U.K., she has worked as a research epidemiologist for almost 40 years, including with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and at the Universities of London and North Carolina, and has served as an advisor for the World Health Organization, the European Union and other international bodies. She has also worked with Friends of the Earth, the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, and Physicians for Social Responsibility, among other organizations, and helped found and participate in numerous local groups advocating for a more peaceable, equitable, and ecologically sustainable world. A long-time member of Durham Friends Meeting in North Carolina, she has been active in peace, social and earthcare concerns within the Quaker community for many years, and was the Henry J. Cadbury Scholar in Quaker Studies at Pendle Hill in 2005-6. She has also traveled widely in the U.S., Europe, Africa, Asia and elsewhere to study the impacts of ecological destruction on human societies and the wider natural world, and to learn about ways we can preserve the commonwealth of life, grounding responses in spiritual and moral principles that can be put into practice in diverse cultures and communities. Read More Read Less