Albert (Al) Iannacone is an environmental epidemiologist with the Knox County Health Department in Knoxville, where he investigates the connections between environmental concerns and public health and educates the public on these issues, with the goal of healthy people living sustainably in a healthy environment.  He is the primary author of the 2007 Knox County Environmental Health Status Report, available at: http://www.knoxcounty.org/health/pdfs/env_health_status_report_2007.pdf
 
Prior to joining the health department, his career in the environmental field had an EPA, rather than a CDC, focus.  He earned a M.S. in chemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1983, then was a chemist for the Kansas City Water and Pollution Control Department, and then a group leader at a private firm providing wastewater treatment services to industrial clients.  He was later  a senior scientist for two EPA contractors, providing chemistry and risk assessment support for environmental cleanups, including at DOD and DOE sites.  Immediately prior to joining the health department, he was a private consultant in the environmental chemistry field.
 
For several years in the 1980’s while living in Kansas City, Al served on the board of directors of the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, a Midwestern environmental group.  Al’s wife Penny is a local veterinarian. They have two sons, one attending UT and the other in graduate school at Georgia Tech.