Kelley Donham
Farmer, professor

Address: PMEH 137 AMRF
Iowa City, IA 52242
Daytime phone: (319) 335-4190
Email: kelley-donham@uiowa.edu

Brief biography: Represents the University of Iowa on the Leopold Center Advisory Board. A professor of occupational and environmental health at the University of Iowa's College of Public Health, Donaham is director of the Iowa Center for Agricultural Safety and Health (I-CASH). He specializes in research on agriculture's occupational and environmental hazards, particularly the effects of concentrated livestock facilities on human and animal health.

A native Iowan, Donahm grew up on his family's farm in Johnson County. He helped his father and grandfather on the 400-acre farm, which included row crops, a 5,000-head hog operation and a cow-calf operation. Donham left the farm when he was 30 to pursue a career in medicine and environmental health. The family farm was annexed by Iowa City in 1980. In 1999, Donham purchased a 300-acre farm in southeast Mahaska County, which he continues to operate.

Donham holds a veterinary medicine degree from Iowa State University, and undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Iowa.

He is chair of the Johnson County Board of Health, board member for the AgriSafe Network and the Center for Rural Health and Primary Care. He and his wife, Jean, a library director at Cornell College, have two sons.