Professor Jeff Burgess, MD, MS, MPH

Jeff is Director of the Firefighter Health Collaborative Research Program at the University of Arizona. He has worked as an Emergency Medicine physician, Medical Toxicologist and Occupational and Environmental Medicine physician. Jeff has served as Principal Investigator for multiple Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funded research grants with firefighters and is a co-lead of the Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study (FFCCS).

Jeff’s Fulbright project is to establish a bush/ wildland/wildland-urban interface (WUI) firefighter health research collaborative between Australia and the U.S. and to identify high-priority research necessary to formulate policies to protect the health of bush, wildland and WUI firefighters.