Dr. Gary E. R. Hook

Abstract

Retrospective A fter almost three decades, 109 volumes, hundreds of thousands of pages, and immeasurable hours of editing and review, EHP is saying goodbye to it's editor-inchief, Gary Hook. Hook is retiring from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and his position as editor of EHP, but not from public service or from the endeavor to communicate science to the global community, a vision that has underpinned his leadership at the helm of this journal. In the next stage of his life's work, he travels home to his native New Zealand to commit his skills to leading the next generation of scientists being educated at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, a Maori university in Whakatane. Hook was born and raised in New Zealand. He received a Ph.D. and later a D.Sc. in biochemistry from Victoria University of Wellington. Shortly after completing his postdoctoral work at