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Matthew Ammon

Director, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Washington, District of Columbia

Matthew Ammon is the Director of the Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has worked at HUD for nearly 30 years to eliminate childhood lead poisoning nationwide and to address housing conditions that threaten the health of residents. He has served in leadership roles in nearly every HUD office, including as Acting HUD Secretary and Acting HUD Deputy Secretary.

He has led the development of robust grant programs, research, enforcement, and technical assistance to support local jurisdictions in their efforts to address environmental hazards in the home. To that end, these programs have been instrumental in creating technical capacity around the country and have resulted in a decrease of 90 percent nationwide in the prevalence of elevated blood lead levels among children ages 1-6.

Mr. Ammon has been instrumental in leading the Department through it’s Healthy Homes Strategic Plan, which focuses HUD’s efforts on making housing repairs to target housing that reduces or eliminates significant health and safety hazards, since the health effects of poor housing conditions cost billions of dollars annually in healthcare costs for asthma, lead-based paint poisoning and injury, as well as lost productivity in the labor force. In addition, he was the primary author of Advancing Healthy Housing – A Strategy for Action, which outlines goals and priorities in healthy housing for the next five years through the work of the federal interagency Healthy Homes Work Group (HHWG), and includes representatives from numerous federal agencies.

Mr. Ammon’s contributions are also seen on the Federal Radon Action Plan, the Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities, the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Healthy Housing, and the National Prevention Council’s National Prevention Strategy. In each case, Mr. Ammon spearheaded the Department’s role in efforts to reduce housing-related health hazards.

Prior to HUD, Mr. Ammon assisted the US EPA in the development and implementation of state programs for the accreditation and certification of lead hazard control training providers, and in the development of the Federal Lead Hazard Disclosure Rule.

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