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Release: March 16, 1995
Contact: Patricia Coen (609/258-5764


Expert on Russia to Discuss Environment
and Health Conditions

Princeton, N.J.--Murray Feshbach, a research professor at
Georgetown University, will speak on ``Environment and Health
Conditions in Russia: Worse Than I Thought,'' at Princeton
University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs on Thursday, March 30, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall,
Bowl 5.

Before retiring from the U.S. government in 1981, Feshbach served
as chief of the USSR Population, Employment, and Research and
Development Branch of the Foreign Demographic Analysis Division
(now the Center for International Research) of the U.S. Bureau of
the Census. He has been a fellow of the Kennan Institute of the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian
Institution, in Washington, D.C. He also, at the request of the
U.S. Department of State, served in 1986 87 as the first
(experimental) Sovietologist-in-residence in the Office of the
Secretary General of NATO, in Brussels, Belgium.

Feshbach is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the
International Institute of Strategic Studies, and is a past
president of the American Association for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies and a past president of the Association for
Comparative Economic Studies. He has been consultant to the World
Bank on health problems in the former Soviet Union, and is a
senior adviser to the CH2M Hill Corporation, which is involved in
a major project on environmental policy and technology in the
former Soviet Union. His current work includes the preparation of
an _Atlas of Health and Environment in Russia_, to be published in
Russian and English this month.

His talk is being sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the
University's Office of Population Research.

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