Colby Adams

Environmental Health Director at: Idaho Division of Public Health

Background

Colby Adams is the Environmental Health Director at the Idaho Division of Public Health in Boise, ID. He joined the Division in 2017, after 20+ years developing and managing environmental, safety, and occupational health programs in the US Air Force as a Bioenvironmental Engineer. Colby earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Colby also earned an MS and a PhD in Environmental Health from Colorado State University. His doctoral research implemented global positioning technology to research exposures to air pollution and related health effects within a cohort of asthmatic children in Denver.