Dr. Shalat came to Georgia State from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he taught in the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine. He also has been on the faculty of Texas A&M University, where he was instrumental in developing its School of Public Health, and at Yale University’s School of Public Health. Dr. Shalat earned his doctorate from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1986 with a joint concentration in Epidemiology and Environmental Health.