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Professor Steve Konkel, Ph.D. MCP

R. Steven Konkel PhD MCP AICP FRIPH is passionate about connecting environment and human health. He has worked at two national energy laboratories conducting energy assessments, policy analysis, and environmental evaluations of projects. In Alaska, in the Office of the Governor, State of Alaska, he served as a Policy Analyst and Strategic Planner during Hon. Gov. Jay Hammond’s 2nd Administration. He had overall responsibility for rural and remote energy planning, energy R&D, and conservation and renewable energy programs. He also became involved in permitting issues associated with offshore oil and gas and support facility permitting in the Arctic Ocean.

Dr. Konkel is currently an Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Alaska. In 2012 he garnered approvals for two new undergraduate degrees and served as a program coordinator. He teaches Dispute Resolution, and a new course on Arctic Policy, Sustainability, and Governance, graduate classes in the College of Business and Public Policy inn Anchorage. He has also worked as a Legislative Assistant for the 29^th Alaska Legislature in a special committee focused on energy.

He has served the International Epidemiological Association as Executive of the local organizing committee for this 20th WCE 2014 from Feb. 2012 through March 2013, and as Co-Chair, Climate Change & Health (Track 2) with Dr. Eduardo Franco of McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

In 2003 Steve received the National Environmental Health Association’s sabbatical exchange ambassador award, which consisted of having a bench at King’s College, U. of London and traveling to 9 countries in the EU to visit environmental health programs.

In 2006, he was selected by the Irish-American Fulbright Association and the J. William Fulbright Presidential Scholarship Board for a Fulbright professorship at Dublin Institute of Technology (2007-08). From Sept. 2008 to August 2010 he was the catalyst and a leader for a successful competitive effort to establish the Environmental Health Sciences Institute at D.I.T., a €12.49 million award fundded under Ireland’s Programme for Research in Third-level Institutions. The award, made July 16, 2010, was the largest research award to date in the DIT’s 120-year history. This website contains some current pictures of the new building in N. city-center Dublin, at Grangegorman. During his Fulbright he was appointed Professor and Sr. Research Fellow Health & Environment.

Dr. Konkel received his Ph.D. in Environmental Policy & Conflict Resolution from MIT (Sept. 1991) and holds a Master in City Planning (MCP) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a specialization in environmental economics and natural resources management (June 1975). He earned a SB (Architectural Engineering) from the U. of Colorado, Boulder (May 1972) in Construction Management. He has also undertaken Independent Study in the Dept. of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley in 1973, where he developed a framework paper on the social responsibility of business.