About the Fluoride Action Network (F.A.N.)

The Fluoride Action Network is an international coalition seeking to broaden public awareness about the toxicity of fluoride compounds and the health impacts of current fluoride exposures.

Along with providing comprehensive and up-to-date information on fluoride issues to citizens, scientists, and policymakers alike, FAN remains vigilant in monitoring government agency actions that may impact the public's exposure to fluoride.

In May of 2004, FAN became an official project of the American Environmental Health Studies Project (AEHSP) - a registered non-profit (501c3) organization.

If you would like to support the educational and watchdog work that FAN is currently engaged in, please consider giving a tax-deductible donation today via our secure online payment system.

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F.A.N.'s 2nd Citizens' Conference on Fluoride (July 28 - August 1, 2006)

Fluoride Action Network Advisory Board:

June Allen, M. Ed. & Philip M. Allen, MD, PhD, Enviro-Health Concerns (pro-bono publico), Wichita, Kansas, USA.
Mark Atkin, National Coordinator, Fluoride Action Network NZ, New Zealand.
Vinod Barot, PhD, Technical Director, Sanitary District of Hammond, Indiana, USA.
Miklos Bely, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., National Institute of Rheumatology, Budapest, Hungary.
Martha Bevis, Houston, Texas, USA.
Ralph Blois, Oregon.
Ailsa Boyden, Australian Fluoridation Information Network, Australia.
Jeffer Castelo Branco, Presidente, ACPO - Associação de Consciência à Prevenção Ocupacional, Brazil.
Albert Burgstahler, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
Robert Carton, PhD, Former President, EPA Headquarters Union, Washington D.C.
Pat Costner, Senior Scientist, Greenpeace International, USA.
Stephen Dean, DC, President, Massachusetts Communities for Pure Water, Massachusetts.
Mark Diesendorf, PhD, Director, Sustainability Centre Pty Ltd, Sydney, and Adjunct Professor of Sustainability Policy, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia.
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., Professor emeritus, Environmental & Occupational Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health; Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition; Right Livelihood Award Winner, 1998; author of The Politics of Cancer, Revisited, 1998.
Naomi Flack, Ed.M, So. Florida Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, Florida.
Richard G. Foulkes, MD, Former health adviser to the government of British Columbia, Canada.
Deanna Havens, Fluoride Awareness Team of Kansas, Kansas.
Von Hernandez, Goldman Prize winner 2003, Toxics Campaigner, Greenpeace International, Philippines.
J. William Hirzy, PhD, Senior Vice President, EPA Headquarters Union, Washington DC.
C. Vyvyan Howard, MB, ChB, PhD, FRCPath, Senior Lecturer, Developmental Toxico-Pathology Group, Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Liverpool, UK.
Tushar Kant Joshi, MS MSc, Head, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Hardy Limeback, DDS, PhD, Head, Preventive Dentistry, University of Toronto & Former President, Canadian Association for Dental Research, Canada.
Peter Montague, PhD, Editor, Rachel's Environment and Health News, New Jersey, USA;
Raul Montenegro, PhD, President, FUNAM (Fundación para la defensa del ambiente), Argentina.
Tohru Murakami, DDS, Vice President, Japanese Society for Fluoride Research, Japan.
Philip Robertson, ND, Lecturer, Natural Medicine, Dept. Health Science, Victoria University, Victoria, Australia.
M. Virginia Rosenbaum, Pure Water Committee of Western Maryland, USA.
Ralph Ryder, Director, Communities Against Toxics, UK.
Andrew Rynne, GP, Medical Writer, Irish Medical News, Ireland.
AHM Saadat, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.
Mageswari Sangaralingam, Research Officer, Consumers' Association of Penang, Malaysia.
Mary J. Shomon, Patient Advocate, and author of Living Well With Hypothyroidism, USA.
David T. Smernoff, PhD, Board of Directors, Acterra, Action for a Sustainable Earth, California, USA.
Gar Smith, Editor Emeritus, Earth Island Journal, Berkeley, California, USA.
Bruce Spittle, MB, ChB, FRANZCP, Senior Lecturer (1978-2004), Department of Psychological Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
John Stauber, Co-author of Toxic Sludge Is Good For You! and Trust Us, We're Experts!, Wisconsin, USA.
Anna Strunecka, PhD, Professor of Physiology, King Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Terri Swearingen, RN, Goldman Prize winner 1997, Executive Director, Tri-State Environmental Council, Chester, West Virginia, USA.
Chris Vermeire, Environmental Journalist, Antwerp, Belgium.
Mae Woo, DDS , Montana, USA.

FAN's Founding Members (May 2000):

Activists:

Numerous groups and individuals opposing local, statewide, and countrywide fluoridation schemes. (For a full listing, click here)

Environmentalists:

David Brower - Founder, Friends of the Earth & Earth Island Institute
Anna Maria Caldara - Editor, Coyote Nation
Michael Colby - Editor, Food and Water
Ellen Connett - Editor, Waste Not
Colleen Cooney - Founder, Ontario Health Advocacy Association
Fred De Baere & Kristine De Leeuw - Workshop Environment and Health in Belgium
Department of the Planet Earth, Inc., Washington, DC
Teddy Goldsmith - Publisher, The Ecologist
Green Party of England and Wales
J.C. Kim - Editor, Green Review (South Korea)
Pennsylvania Environmental Network (PEN)
Vicki & Bill Smedley - Founders, GreenWatch
Gar Smith - Editor, Earth Island Journal
Charlie Spencer - Past-President, Secular Franciscan Order, U.S.
Terri Swearingen - Goldman Prize Winner, 1997

Scientists & Medical Professionals:

Kenji Akiniwa, DDS,
Albert Burgstahler, PhD - Emeritus Professor, University of Kansas (Lawrence)
Robert Carton, PhD - Former health risk assessment scientist, US Environmental Protection Agency
Paul Connett, PhD - Professor of Chemistry, St. Lawrence University, New York
Richard Foulkes, M.D. - Former advisor, Ministry of Health, British Columbia, Canada
David Kennedy, DDS,
Lennart Krook, PhD - Emeritus Professor, Cornell University
J. William Hirzy, PhD - Senior Vice President, US EPA Headquarters Union, US Environmental Protection Agency
Vyvyan Howard, MB. ChB. PhD. FRCPath - Toxicopathologist, Liverpool University, UK
John R. Lee, M.D.
Hardy Limeback, DDS, Ph.D.,
Jerry Mittelman DDS - Publisher, Holistic Dental Digest
Tohru Murakami DDS, Ph.D,
Kenichi Narita DDS
Bruce Spittle, MB, ChB, FRANZCP, Senior Lecturer (1978-2004), Department of Psychological Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Nakao Shimizu DDS.
A.K. Susheela, PhD - Director, Fluorosis Research & Rural Development Foundation, India