Appendix B

Biosketches for Workshop Planning Committee Member, Speakers, and Discussants

COMMITTEE MEMBER BIOGRAPHIES

Germaine M. Buck Louis, Ph.D., is a professor and dean at the College of Health and Human Services at George Mason University. She is a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist whose expertise focuses on the impact of environmental influences, such as endocrine disruptors, stress, and diet on human reproduction and development. Her research also focuses on the exposome research paradigm for assessing environmental mixtures and the implications of fecundity and fertility impairments for men and women’s health across the life-span. Prior to joining George Mason in October 2017, Dr. Buck Louis was the director for the Division of Intramural Population Health Research at the NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, where she conducted research aimed at enhancing the health and well-being of fetuses, pregnant women, children, and young adults. Previously, she was a professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She has published numerous scientific papers and technical reports, coedited the textbook Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology, and provided considerable service to the National Academies, Pan American Health Organization, U.S. EPA, and WHO. She was the president of the Society of Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research and the Society for Epidemiologic Research and served on the boards for the American College of Epidemiology and the International Society for Environmental

Epidemiology. She received her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Darryl B. Hood, Ph.D., is a professor and environmental public health neuroscientist in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences in the College of Public Health at Ohio State University. From 200 to 2011, Dr. Hood led what has come to be known as the most successful Minority S11 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)-sponsored initiative, the Advanced Research Cooperation in Environmental Health Program. Its research contributed to the scientific database that the U.S. EPA used to reassess the levels of PAH emissions from smokestacks, resulting in public policy changes that will decrease the adverse health effects associated with environmental exposures. At Ohio State, Dr. Hood has continued his innovation in discovery as the coarchitect of the novel Public Health Exposome framework and big data to knowledge analytics and his robust environmental justice work in the high-risk and vulnerable census tracts of Columbus. He is on numerous editorial and review boards for scientific journals, government agencies, and research advisory committees. Most recently (2010–2016), he served on the EPA Exposure and Human Health Subcommittee of the Science Advisory Board. Recently, he was elected chair of the Education and Career Development Committee in the Society of Toxicology and president of Toxicologists of African Origin, a special interest group within the society. He received the prestigious Ruth Bailey Award, which recognizes faculty who demonstrated a significant contribution toward campus multicultural interaction and understanding in the previous year. Dr. Hood earned a Ph.D. in biomedical science—biochemistry from the Quillen-Dishner College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University.

Mona Hanna-Attisha, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP, is the founder and director of the Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, an innovative and model public health program in Flint, Michigan. A frequent contributor to national media outlets, including the New York Times and Washington Post, Dr. Hanna-Attisha has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and countless other outlets championing the cause of children in Flint and beyond. She is the founding donor of the Flint Child Health and Development Fund. She is a Charles Stewart Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health and an associate professor of pediatrics and human development at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. With concentrations in environmental health and health policy, Dr. Hanna-Attisha completed her medical degree from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and her residency at Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, where she was chief resident.

Heather B. Patisaul, Ph.D., is the associate dean for research in the College of Sciences and a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University. She explores the mechanisms by which endocrine-disrupting compounds alter neuroendocrine pathways in the brain related to sex-specific physiology and behavior. She is specifically interested in phytoestrogens, flame retardants, and Bisphenol A (BPA). Dr. Patisaul is an NIEHS ONES Award recipient (2007) and participated on several national and international expert panels and workshops related to health effects associated with soy, BPA, and other endocrine disruptors. She chaired the 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors and coedited several special issues on endocrine disruptors, brain, and behavior. Dr. Patisaul served on four previous National Academies committees: Committee on Reviewing EPA’s ORD Staff Handbook for Developing IRIS Assessments, Workshop Planning Committee on Understanding the Paradigm Change at the Interface of Emerging Sources of Environmental Health Data and Decision Making, Committee on Incorporating 21st Century Science in Risk-Based Evaluations, and Committee to Review EPA’s Draft Paper, State of the Science on Nonmonotonic Dose Response. She received a Ph.D. in population biology, ecology, and evolution from Emory University, with a research focus on comparative neuroendocrinology.

Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, M.P.H., serves as the executive director for the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN), where she successfully organizes, leads, and manages policy, education/training, and science programs. She is a leader in the field of children’s environmental health, serving on the external science board for the ECHO NIH Research work. She is a coleader of the health/science initiative of the Cancer Free Economy Network, cochair of the National Environmental Health Partnership Council, board chair for the Pesticide Action Network of North America, board member for the Environmental Integrity Project, and on the Maryland Children’s Environmental Health Advisory Council. Ms. Witherspoon has held appointments on the EPA Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee, NIH Council of Councils, CDC Science Advisory Board, and Board for the American Public Health Association. She is a past member of the National Association of Environmental Health Sciences Council and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Environmental Health Sciences Roundtable. She has an M.P.H. in maternal and child health from George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services.

WORKSHOP SPEAKERS AND DISCUSSANTS

Manish Arora, Ph.D., is an exposure biologist and environmental epidemiologist with training in advanced analytical chemistry methods. Dr. Arora has developed sophisticated laboratory methods to measure chemical signatures in teeth and hair as markers of environmental chemical exposures, with a focus on reconstructing early-life exposure history. He was awarded an Australian government scholarship to study the uptake of environmental metal toxicants and its impact on human health and then was accepted as a postdoctoral fellow at the Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology program at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a professor and vice chairman of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, division chief of Environmental Health, and director of the Laboratory for Exposomic Innovation and Precision Environmental Medicine.

Aaron Bernstein, M.D., M.P.H., is the interim director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Children’s Hospital. He studies the effects of global environmental changes, including climate change and the loss of biodiversity, on health. He was coauthor and coeditor of Sustaining Life, which presents the relationships between human health and biodiversity and received several awards, including best biology book of the year from Library Journal. He has served on the executive committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics National Council on Environmental Health and Board of Scientific Councilors to CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health. He was named a Harvard University Zuckerman Fellow in 2008. He serves on the Steering Committee for the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the U.S. Healthcare System and was a leader in organizing a National Academies planning meeting on climate change and child health, supported by NAM and the Burroughs Welcome Fund. He received his degrees in medicine and public health from the University of Chicago and Harvard, respectively, and completed residency in the Harvard/Boston University combined program in pediatrics.

Linda S. Birnbaum, Ph.D., DABT, ATS, is the former director (appointed in 2009) of NIH NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. As a board-certified toxicologist, Birnbaum was a federal scientist for 40 years. After retirement, she was granted scientist emeritus status and still maintains a laboratory. Previously, she spent 19 years at the U.S. EPA, where she directed the largest division focusing on environmental health research. Dr. Birnbaum has received many awards and recognitions. In 2016, she was

awarded the North Carolina Award in Science. She was elected to NAM, one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health, and to the Collegium Ramazzini, an independent, international academy of internationally renowned experts in the fields of occupational and environmental health, and received an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Rochester and a Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Illinois. She has also received honorary doctorates from Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and Amity University, India. She also received the Surgeon General’s Medallion in 2014 and 14 scientific and technological achievement awards, which reflect the suggestions of the EPA’s external Science Advisory Board, for specific publications. Dr. Birnbaum is an active member of the scientific community. She was vice president of the International Union of Toxicology, the umbrella organization for toxicology societies in more than 50 countries, and former president of the Society of Toxicology, the largest professional organization of toxicologists in the world. She is the author of more than 1,000 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, abstracts, and reports. Her research focuses on the pharmacokinetic behavior of environmental chemicals, toxicants’ mechanisms of action, including endocrine disruption, and linking real-world exposures to health effects. She is an adjunct professor in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, Curriculum in Toxicology, and Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as in the Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program at Duke University, where she is also a scholar in residence. A native of New Jersey, she received her M.S. and Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Jeanne Briskin, S.M., is the director of the EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection (OCHP). Previously, she was the director of the Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center in the Office of General Counsel since 2016, providing high-quality mediation, facilitation, and training services agency-wide. Ms. Briskin offers a wealth of experience and expertise, having worked in many programs across the EPA, including as coordinator for Hydraulic Fracturing Research in the Office of Research and Development, chief of the Standards and Risk Reductions Branch in the Office of Water, deputy director of the Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Division in the Office of Air and Radiation, and director of the National Pesticides Survey, and chief of the Task Force on Lead in Drinking Water. She holds an S.M. in technology and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Thomas Burke, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Jacob I. and Irene B. Fabrikant Professor and Chair in Health Risk and Society at Johns Hopkins

University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. He is also director of the Johns Hopkins Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute. Dr. Burke was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as EPA assistant administrator for the Office of Research and Development. His research interests include environmental epidemiology and surveillance, evaluation of population exposures to environmental pollutants, assessment and communication of environmental risks, and application of epidemiology and health risk assessment to public policy. Before joining the university faculty, Dr. Burke was deputy commissioner of health for the State of New Jersey and director of science and research for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. In New Jersey, he directed initiatives that influenced the development of national programs, such as Superfund, Safe Drinking Water Act, and Toxics Release Inventory. Dr. Burke serves as chair of the National Academies Environmental Health Matters Initiative Steering Committee. His National Academies service included member of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology; chair of the Committee on Improving Risk Analysis that produced the report Science and Decisions; chair of the Committee on Human Biomonitoring for Environmental Toxicants; and member of the Committee on Science for EPA’s Future. He is a fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis and a lifetime National Associate of the National Academies. He was inaugural chair of the advisory committee to the director of the U.S. Centers for the CDC National Center for Environmental Health and a member of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board and Board of Scientific Counselors. Dr. Burke received his M.P.H. from the University of Texas and his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Alison Connolly, Ph.D., is an exposure scientist from the University of Galway, in Ireland. She is the principal investigator on the Neonicotinoid Insecticide Exposures project and a former Irish Research Council Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral research fellow on the project “Ireland’s Biomonitoring Assessment of Glyphosate Exposures.” Her research interest is investigating human exposures to pollutants, predominantly using a human biomonitoring sampling strategy for both environmental and occupational exposures. Dr. Connolly also does extensive work within the scientific community; she is on the executive board of the European Chapter of the International Society of Exposure Science as a counselor for exposure science capacity building, training, and education, is chair of the Education, Training and Communication working group, and has been a leading figure in the development of exposure science strategies for Europe. Dr. Connolly received her Bachelor of Science

in environmental health and safety and her exposure science Ph.D. on “Characterising Glyphosate Exposure Among Amenity Horticulturists” from the University of Galway.

Brenda Eskenazi, Ph.D., is a professor of epidemiology at the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health. She is also director of the Children’s Center for Environmental Health and chair of Community Health and Human Development. Her research interests are in the effects of environmental exposures (such as pesticides, lead, solvents, dioxin, and tobacco smoke) on reproductive, perinatal, and children’s health, the reproductive and development effects of environmental toxicants on fetal and child health and reproductive health in men and women, and reproductive and pediatric epidemiology. Dr. Eskenazi was a member of the IOM’s Board on Children, Youth, and Families and served on the NRC Committee to Review California’s Risk Assessment Process for Pesticides. She received her Ph.D. in neuropsychology from the City University of New York.

Kelly Ferguson, Ph.D., M.P.H., leads the Perinatal and Early Life Epidemiology group in the Epidemiology Branch at NIEHS. Her team investigates how maternal exposure to environmental chemicals impacts pregnancy and the development of the fetus and child. They also investigate oxidative stress and inflammation as biological mechanisms that may connect chemical exposures to adverse birth outcomes. Dr. Ferguson has a Ph.D. and an M.P.H. from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Environmental and Occupational Health.

Marie C. Fortin, Ph.D., is the associate director of Toxicology at Jazz Pharmaceuticals; she designs nonclinical safety drug development programs to meet regulatory expectations and support adequate safety evaluation while optimizing consideration of the 3Rs. She develops in vitro and in vivo study protocols and oversees safety pharmacology and investigative and regulatory toxicology studies. In addition, she contributes critical input on other aspects of drug development, such as pharmacology and pharmacokinetics, evaluation of the risk–benefit ratio, and determination of first-in-human doses. As toxicology lead on multiple cross-functional teams, she authors the relevant sections or regulatory submissions and represents the toxicology function in regulatory interactions. In addition, Dr. Fortin is an adjunct professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University, where she mentors graduate students, teaches in the Joint Program in Toxicology, and codirects the graduate risk assessment course. In her previous industry and consulting roles, she authored or oversaw

the development of multiple human health risk assessments for pesticides, metals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetic ingredients, and chemicals for all routes of exposure (oral, inhalation, dermal, and parenteral) and managed an in vitro safety testing laboratory focused on organotypic models. Dr. Fortin is a board-certified and European-registered toxicologist who is particularly interested in the integration of new approaches to support the safety evaluation of pharmaceuticals and their translational application to the risk assessment of chemicals. She received her Ph.D. in public health—toxicology (2009) from the Université de Montréal and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now part of Rutgers University) (2011).

Maida Galvez, M.D., is an environmental pediatrician at Mount Sinai in New York City and professor in the Departments of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and Pediatrics. Dr. Galvez works to translate research into programs and policies that prevent and reduce environmental exposures for children, their families, and their communities. She is the founding director of NYSCHECK, the first statewide, publicly funded model for children’s environmental health services in the United States and, since 2006, has been director of the CDC/EPA funded Region 2 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit serving NJ, NY, PR, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Dr. Galvez also leads several Sinai initiatives to bring researchers together with community partners to work on environmental health and environmental justice issues. She is a member of the Institute for Exposomic Research at Mount Sinai, cochairs the Communications Breakout group of the CDC/APHA National Environmental Health Partnership Council, and serves on the board of CEHN and advisory board for Parson’s New School Healthy Materials Lab.

Paul Juarez, Ph.D., is a professor and vice chair for research, family, and community medicine at Meharry Medical College. Dr. Juarez is nationally recognized for his research in health disparities, particularly in injury prevention, and for using community-based participatory research methods. He was appointed in December 2016 as chair of the Advisory Committee on Minority Health, Office of Minority Health, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Juarez has been at the forefront nationally in using the exposome paradigm to identify the mechanisms and pathways through which environmental exposures “get under the skin.” He has led a transdisciplinary team that pioneered efforts that look at the effects of the natural, built, and social environments on health and health disparities at critical developmental periods and apply “big data” computational methods and analytics to population health. Dr. Juarez has published widely on topics of the exposome, youth violence, health

equity, and community engagement. He has a Ph.D. in social policy from Brandeis University.

Philip Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc., is a pediatrician and epidemiologist. He directs the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good and the Global Observatory on Planetary Health at Boston College. His research examines health impacts of toxic environmental hazards. His CDC studies of lead conducted in the 1970s demonstrated that low-level exposure reduces children’s IQ and contributed to the EPA’s 1975 decision to remove lead from paint and gasoline, which reduced blood lead levels by 95 percent and increased the IQ of all U.S. children born since 1980. His documentation of children’s exquisite sensitivity to pesticides as chair of the NAS Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children contributed to enacting the FQPA of 1996, the only federal environmental law containing explicit provisions to protect children’s health. In the 1990s, he served as special assistant to the administrator of the U.S. EPA and helped to establish OCHP. From 1985 to 2018, he was a member of the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he was chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine, professor of pediatrics, and dean for global health. He cochaired the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, which reported in 2018 that pollution causes 9 million deaths annually and that prevention is feasible, cost effective, and lifesaving. Since 2019, he has led the Monaco Commission on Human Health and Ocean Pollution. He is a member of NAM.

David Levine is the cofounder and president of the American Sustainable Business Network. He has worked as a social entrepreneur for more than 30 years, focusing on developing whole-systems solutions for a more sustainable society through building strategic partnerships and broad stakeholder initiatives. He was the founding director of Continuing Education and Public Programs at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and founder and executive director of the Learning Alliance, an independent popular education organization (1984–1997).

Janet McCabe, J.D., is the deputy administrator of the U.S. EPA, where she returned after 7 years as acting assistant administrator and principal deputy to the assistant administrator in the Office of Air and Radiation under President Barack Obama. Prior to rejoining the EPA, she was a professor of practice at the Indiana University (IU) McKinney School of Law and Director of the IU Environmental Resilience Institute, where she started as assistant director for policy and implementation. Her work at IU centered on establishing innovative, research-informed, and actionable solutions to reduce environmental risks and protect community and family health.

Mark Miller, M.D., M.P.H., is a public health medical officer and director of the Children’s Environmental Health Center at the California EPA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. He is also codirector the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit at UCSF. Dr. Miller is a pediatrician whose work focuses on integrating children’s development and unique vulnerabilities into environmental health risk assessment. He has also worked to integrate education about the toxic effects of environmental chemicals in pregnant women and children into medical education and clinical practice. Dr. Miller has cowritten and edited a biennial “Report to the Governor’s Office and Legislature” to improve the environmental health literacy of California legislators and other policymakers.

Chirag J. Patel, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at HMS. His primary research interests include developing multiscale computational and data science methods to dissect the role of environmental exposures and genetic factors in complex traits and disease, with an emphasis on the trajectory from obesity to diabetes and its complications. His portfolio is supported by the National Science Foundation and NIH. Dr. Patel is a leader in “exposome” science, developing methods to map systems of dietary and environmental exposure factors with disease. He is an active researcher in “meta-science,” studying the science of science, with an affiliation and collaboration in the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University. His work in meta-science has led to participation in an international committee developing suggestions for dietary intake. Dr. Patel was a member (2014–2017) of the National Academies’ Standing Committee on Emerging Sciences for Environmental Health Decisions and is an active member of HMS’s faculty council. He received his Ph.D. in biomedical informatics from Stanford University.

Frederica P. Perera, DrPH, Ph.D., is a professor of environmental health sciences and founder of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, where she served as director (1998–2019). She now leads the center’s Program in Translational Research. Dr. Perera is internationally recognized for pioneering the field of molecular epidemiology, using biomarkers to understand links between environmental exposures and disease. She and her colleagues have applied advanced molecular and imaging techniques within longitudinal cohort studies of pregnant women and their children, with the goal of identifying preventable environmental risk factors for adverse birth outcomes, developmental and behavioral disorders, asthma, obesity, and other diseases in children. The exposures include toxic chemicals, pesticides, and air pollution, with particular focus

on adverse effects of prenatal and early childhood exposures. Her current research addresses the multiple impacts on children’s health and development of climate change and air pollution due to fossil fuel emissions and the health and economic benefits of policies to reduce those. She is the author of over 400 publications, including 350 peer-reviewed articles.

Niels E. Skakkebæk, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor in testicular dysgenesis and endocrine disruption at University of Copenhagen and senior researcher at the Department of Growth and Reproduction at the Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet. His primary research areas are testicular cancer, testicular dysgenesis syndrome, and endocrine disrupters. He has published more than 700 research papers (h-index 114 [ISI]) and supervised numerous Ph.D. students. He is Doctor H.C. at Turku University, Finland, and University of Liege, Belgium. He has received several prizes for his research, including the Andrea Prader Prize (European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology), Novo Nordic Prize, KFJ Prize (University of Copenhagen) and Lundbeck Prize. He has been a professor at University of Copenhagen since 1980.

Shirlee Tan, Ph.D., is the senior toxicologist for the Seattle and King County Department of Public Health, where she serves as a technical advisor for the department on issues related to chemical exposures, impacts, and policies. She works directly with communities and individuals to address ways to reduce chemical exposures and effects. Dr. Tan is on numerous advisory groups for the state, focused on chemical policy and regulation around chemical use, toxics cleanup, and environmental justice. She is a member of the EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee. Dr. Tan worked for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the U.S. EPA to develop regulatory assays for endocrine-disrupting chemicals, with a particular focus on thyroid and in vitro assays. She also worked for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoological Park on pesticide misuse in Southeast Asia. She consults for the Endocrine Society on science policy issues related to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Dr. Tan holds a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology from the University of San Diego and conducted her postdoctoral research on dopaminergic receptors and neurodegenerative pathways.

Robyn L. Tanguay, Ph.D., is a university distinguished professor at Oregon State University in the Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology. She started her academic career at the University of Colorado in the School of Pharmacy in 1999. She is a molecular toxicologist who primarily uses the zebrafish model to answer toxicological, developmental, and behavioral questions relevant to human health. Over the past several years, she has pioneered the use of that systems toxicology model. She has

authored approximately 300 manuscripts and book chapters across disciplines, many focused on advancing zebrafish for environmental health sciences research. She also serves on numerous academic, federal, and commercial advisory boards and as an editor for several scientific journals. She was on the NAM Committee on Incorporating 21st Century Science into Risk-Based Evaluations (2015–2016). She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California-Riverside in 1995 and postdoctoral training in Developmental Toxicology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1995–1999).

Wendy Wagner, J.D., is the Richard Dale Endowed Chair at the University of Texas School of Law. Her research focuses on issues related to the design of bureaucratic processes, environmental regulation, and law and science. She has authored three books and dozens of articles. She has participated in various organizations, including the American Bar Association, National Academies committees, the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Center for Progressive Reform, and served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the U.S. She earned her law degree from Yale Law School, clerked for the Honorable Albert Engle of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and served as an honors attorney in the environmental enforcement section of the Department of Justice.

Tracey Woodruff, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Alison S. Carlson endowed professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF and the director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment. She is also the director of the Environmental Research and Translation for Health Center. She is a recognized expert on environmental pollution exposures and impacts on health, with a focus on pregnancy, infancy, and childhood, and innovations in translating and communicating scientific findings for clinical and policy audiences. She has authored numerous scientific publications and book chapters and been quoted widely in the press, including USA Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, and New York Times. Before UCSF, Dr. Woodruff was a senior scientist and policy advisor for the U.S. EPA’s Office of Policy. She was appointed by the governor of California to the Science Advisory Board of the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee. She also serves as a member of the EPA Board on Scientific Councilors and National Academies Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.

Stephanie Yendell, DVM, M.P.H., is a senior epidemiology supervisor at the Minnesota Department of Health’s Health Risk Intervention Unit of the Division of Environmental Health. She served as the lead of the Lead and Healthy Homes Program at the Minnesota Department of Health

and an epidemic intelligence service officer and lieutenant in the commissioned corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. Dr. Yendell has a Ph.D. in veterinary medicine and M.A. in public health from the University of Minnesota.

Zhiwei Xu, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. His primary research interest is investigating the health impacts of climate change. His publications have been cited more than 3,200 times. Eight of his publications have been cited in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. He has a Ph.D. from Queensland University of Technology.

STAFF BIOGRAPHIES

Elizabeth Barksdale Boyle, M.P.H., is a senior program officer in the HMD’s Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice after serving for several years as a program officer with the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. She was an Environmental Health scientist at Westat, where she supported the EPA, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, and the National Cancer Institute. Before Westat, Ms. Boyle was a student epidemiologist at the Minnesota Department of Health and an industrial hygienist at a consulting firm in Cincinnati. She is a Fellow of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she is pursuing a doctor of public health in environmental health. Ms. Boyle has an M.P.H. in environmental health from the University of Minnesota and a certificate in risk sciences and public policy from the Bloomberg School of Public Health and is a certified industrial hygienist.

Gillian Buckley, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a senior program officer in the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She has led a range of consensus committee studies, including Combating Antimicrobial Resistance and Protecting the Miracle of Modern Medicine and A National Strategy for the Elimination of Hepatitis B and C, as well multiple studies on food and medicine safety and infectious disease in low- and middle-income countries. She has a master’s degree in public health and doctorate in human nutrition both from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Nepal from 2000 to 2002.

Kate Guyton, Ph.D., is a senior program officer on the Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology within the Division of Earth and Life

Sciences at the National Academies. She has more than 20 years of experience applying her expert knowledge in mechanistic toxicology and carcinogenesis and has been certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology since 1998. Her experience includes service as a senior toxicologist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, WHO in Lyon, France (2014–2020). She was a toxicologist in the Office of Research and Development at the U.S. EPA (2005–2014) and director of Scientific Affairs at CCS Associates (1998–2005), a woman-owned small business. Dr. Guyton received her B.A. (cum laude) in biology from Johns Hopkins University, her Ph.D. in toxicological sciences from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her postdoctoral training at NIH. She has authored more than 90 scientific articles in her areas of expertise (overall h-index 46).

Erin Fox, M.A. M.P.H., is a former program officer in the Board on Children, Youth, and Families at the National Academies of Sciences. She supported this project through July 2022. During her time at the National Academies, she served as director of the Forum for Children’s Well-Being and supported other projects on topics related to children’s health and well-being. She is currently affiliated with The Ohio State University.

Kaley Beins, M.P.H., is an associate program officer on the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology within the Division on Earth and Life Sciences. Prior to the National Academies, she worked as a federal contractor for Abt Associates, where she supported developing Associations of Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s Toxicological Profiles and the EPA’s green chemistry and product labeling programs. Ms. Beins focuses on the intersection of public health and toxicology and has conducted research and led community engagement initiatives with NGOs, with local health departments, and as a Fulbright Research Fellow. She is a board member for DC EcoWomen and the vice president of the Washington, DC, Chapter of Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society. Ms. Beins has a B.S. in environmental biology from Georgetown University and an M.P.H. in environmental health sciences from the University of Maryland.

Alexandra McKay, M.A., is a senior program assistant in the HMD. During her graduate and undergraduate careers, she worked in museums and cultural heritage institutions, focusing on public education and assisting in database creation and exhibit curation. Ms. McKay also has experience working for the National Park Service as an interpretation ranger concentrating on science education and public engagement. She graduated from Yale University, where she received her M.A. in archaeological studies.