Jamal Hisham Hashim is a research fellow at the UNU International Institute for Global Health and a professor of environmental health at the National University of Malaysia (UKM). He has a Ph.D. degree in environmental health sciences from the School of Public Health, University of Michigan. His research interests are mainly on the health effects of heavy metals, pesticides, solvents, air pollution, and recently, climate change. He is a registered environmental impact assessment consultant with the Department of Environment, Malaysia, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health in the United Kingdom.