Epidemiology & Public Health

Elizabeth Irvin-Barnwell graduated with a BS in Human Biology and Anthropology from Emory University and a PhD in Toxicology from the University of Georgia. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Epidemiology at the University of Georgia where she evaluated body burden levels of environmental contaminants during pregnancy in women living in Trujillo, Peru. She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in February 2010 as an Epidemiologist with the Health Investigations Branch. While at CDC/ATSDR, she has served as the lead project officer for the Polycythemia Vera Cancer Cluster Investigation where she provided expert consultation, guidance, and oversight for more than 15 research projects, including epidemiological, toxicological, environmental and genetics studies. Currently, she is working as a Community Studies Team Lead in the Environmental Epidemiology Branch where she supervises a group of multidisciplinary

scientists working on a number of diverse projects.