Enhancing EPA Science Capability for a Complex Future: Recommendations for Use of Title 42 Special Hiring Authority (2024)
Chapter: Appendix F: FY 2023 Title 42 Positions
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Suggested Citation:
"Appendix F: FY 2023 Title 42 Positions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Enhancing EPA Science Capability for a Complex Future: Recommendations for Use of Title 42 Special Hiring Authority. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27440.
Appendix F
FY 2023 Title 42 Positions
TABLE F-1 FY 2023 Title 42 Positions
| No. | Position Title | EPA/ORD Organization | Position Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National program director, Safe and Sustainable Water Resources | ORD, IOAA | Contaminant evaluation, water resource management, systems approach, environmental sciences, toxicology, human health, wetland restoration |
| 2 | Director, Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure (CCTE) | ORD/CCTE | Computational models, computational chemistry, molecular biology, systems biology, exposure science, genomic biology, bioinformatics, chemical safety sciences |
| 3 | Director, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) | ORD/CPHEA | Human health and environmental assessments, transdisciplinary research, systems thinking, air pollution, clinical research |
| 4 | National program director for Chemical Safety and Sustainability | ORD/IOAA | Chemical assessment, chemical regulation, innovative chemical design, biological sciences, physical sciences, chemical safety, sustainability |
| 5 | Division director, Chemical Characterization and Exposure Division | ORD/CCTE | Analytical chemistry, computational chemistry, cheminformatics, chemical exposure, environmental fate, toxicity |
| 6 | Division director, Chemical and Pollutant Assessment Division | ORD/CPHEA | Chemical hazard assessment, toxicology, cancer biology, developmental biology, reproductive biology, endocrinology, neuroscience |
| 7 | Division director, Public Health and Integrated Toxicology Division | ORD/CPHEA | Biological measures, environmental exposures, developmental biology, systems biology, genomics, computational modeling |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix F: FY 2023 Title 42 Positions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Enhancing EPA Science Capability for a Complex Future: Recommendations for Use of Title 42 Special Hiring Authority. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27440.
| 8 | Division director, Health and Environmental Effects Assessment Division | ORD/CPHEA | Health and environmental effects assessment, risk assessment methods, air pollutants research |
| 9 | Division director, Biomolecular and Computational Toxicology Division | ORD/CCTE | High-throughput exposure modeling, dosimetry, kinetics, advanced methods, toxicity estimation |
| 10 | Environmental measurements data scientist | ORD/CEMM | Atmospheric science, water quality science, ecology, pollutant time series data, observational networks, remote sensing |
| 11 | Microbiologist (virology) | ORD/CEMM | Virus virulence, experimental models, environmental matrices, animals, humans |
| 12 | Senior advisor for exposure characterization and modeling | ORD/CCTE | Exposure research program, empirical and computational tools |
| 13 | Associate director for research | ORD/CESER | Technologies for water quality, post-use water collection, treatment |
| 14 | Associate director for toxicology | ORD/CCTE | Integrated health and ecological impacts, empirical, computational, and modeling tools |
| 15 | Research chemist (bioinformatics) | ORD/CCTE | Systems models, bioinformatics, biochemical pathways, sequence retrieval, alignment, clustering, expression profile analysis, protein structure analysis, pathway analysis |
| 16 | Research physicist (computational systems biology) | ORD/CCTE | Computational solutions, models, chemical exposure, hazard, risk, informatics, genomics |
| 17 | Research biologist (developmental systems biology) | ORD/CCTE | Systems-level models, biological processes, tissues, developmental biology, genomics, computational modeling |
| 18 | Research chemist (cheminformatics) | ORD/CCTE | Computational chemistry tools, physiochemical properties prediction, adverse effects prediction, high-throughput toxicological assessments |
| 19 | Research chemist (computational chemist) | ORD/CCTE | Computational chemistry, knowledge-driven medicinal chemistry, biological interactions, modes of action, toxicity prediction |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix F: FY 2023 Title 42 Positions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Enhancing EPA Science Capability for a Complex Future: Recommendations for Use of Title 42 Special Hiring Authority. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27440.
| No. | Position Title | EPA/ORD Organization | Position Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Human exposure modeler | ORD/CCTE | Computational modeling, physiological based pharmacokinetic models, exposure assessment approaches |
| 21 | Cell biologist (chemical risk assessment scientist) | ORD/CCTE | In vitro cell-based and cell-free assays, high-throughput in vitro cell-based and cell-free assays |
| 22 | Molecular/cellular toxicologist | ORD/CCTE | Automated in vitro assays, screening environmental chemicals |
| 23 | Computational toxicologist | ORD/CCTE | Statistical or dynamic computational models, drug effectiveness prediction, environmental chemicals impact on human health |
| 24 | Bioinformatics scientist | ORD/CCTE | Bioinformatics approaches, high-throughput transcriptomic studies, genomic bioinformatics tools |
| 25 | Genomics scientist | ORD/CCTE | Quantitative thresholds, adverse outcome pathway key events, next-generation sequencing technologies |
| 26 | Chemical exposure data scientist | ORD/CCTE | Computational exposure, information technology, large data sources, chemistry, computer sciences, mathematics, statistics, social and behavioral sciences |
| 27 | Cell biologist/bioengineer for NAMs [new approach methodologies] | ORD/CCTE | Experimental models, advanced human, cell-based NAMs, human health hazards characterization |
| 28 | Research limnologist | ORD/CCTE | Environmental chemistry, limnology, ecology, ecotoxicology, contaminant research |
| 29 | Systematic review data scientist | ORD/CPHEA | Machine-learning programs, data integration, big data, impacts of pollutant exposure on human health and ecosystems |
| 30 | Computational biologist (high-dimensional computational epidemiologist) | ORD/CPHEA | Systems biology, high-dimensional data techniques, environmental epidemiology |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix F: FY 2023 Title 42 Positions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Enhancing EPA Science Capability for a Complex Future: Recommendations for Use of Title 42 Special Hiring Authority. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27440.
| 31 | Reproductive systems biologist | ORD/CPHEA | Adverse outcome pathways, reproductive outcomes, endocrine disrupting chemicals, PFAS |
| 32 | Geospatial aquatic ecologist | ORD/CPHEA | Geospatial techniques, aquatic endpoints, stream condition, contaminant presence, computer modeling |
| 33 | Population health scientist | ORD/CPHEA | Large clinical and health cohorts, environmental conditions impact on human health |
| 34 | Environmental health data scientist | ORD/CPHEA | Data infrastructure, informatics techniques, exposure data use, data integration, decision-making, screening-level and higher-tier assessments |
| 35 | Environmental molecular biologist | ORD/CPHEA | Neurodevelopmental research, PFAS, pesticides, endocrine disruptors, thyroid hormone regulation, adverse changes to neural development |
| 36 | Quantitative microbial risk assessment modeler | ORD/CESER | Models for human health risks, wastewaters, antimicrobial resistant bacteria, wastewater treatment systems, recreational water exposures |
| 37 | Emerging contaminants chemist | ORD/CESER | Analytical methods for PFAS, technical expertise on PFAS and emerging contaminants in drinking water |
| 38 | Remediation engineer | ORD/CESER | Behavior of chemical, biological, radiological agents, methods and tools development for agent assessment and removal |
| 39 | Environmental engineer (PFAS) | ORD/CESER | PFAS removal and destruction strategies, hard-to-treat water situations, wastewater/biosolids, landfill leachate, groundwater, remediation soil solution wastes |
| 40 | Environmental social scientist | ORD/IOAA | Translational science, social and natural science integration, climate change, environmental justice, equity, values incorporation |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix F: FY 2023 Title 42 Positions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Enhancing EPA Science Capability for a Complex Future: Recommendations for Use of Title 42 Special Hiring Authority. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27440.
| No. | Position Title | EPA/ORD Organization | Position Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | Wastewater surveillance engineer/epidemiologist | ORD/CESER | Biological and chemical signatures measurement in sewage, disease prevalence assessment, SARSCoV-2, wastewater surveillance |
| 42 | Environmental health informatics | ORD/CPHEA | Computational and analytical approaches development, quantitative and statistical methods application, health/epidemiologic informatics platforms, data gathering with human subjects, cumulative health vulnerability, structural environment role in risk definition |
| 43 | Computational chemist | ORD/CCTE | Development and maintenance of structure-annotated chemical inventory tracking system (ChemTrack), chemistry content management, detailed chemical mappings, high-throughput data management |
| 44 | Senior research biologist for community participatory research | ORD/CESER | Science program development, urban, community-based, and environmental justice research |
| 45 | Microbiologist | ORD/CESER | Biosafety Level 3 establishment, biological research portfolio, sampling, analysis, decontamination, disinfection, viability assessment, bacteriology, aseptic techniques |
| 46 | Senior advisor for the bipartisan infrastructure law (BIL) research | ORD/CESER | National-scale program development, drinking water treatment, PFAS treatment, lead in drinking water, lead service lines, corrosion in premise plumbing, scientific programs planning, communication, coalition building |
NOTES: CEMM = EPA’s Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling; CESER = EPA’s Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response; EPA = Environmental Protection Agency; FY = fiscal year; IOAA = EPA’s Immediate Office of the Assistant Administrator; ORD = EPA’s Office of Research and Development; PFAS = Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances.
SOURCE: EPA. 2023. Title 42: On-boards and recruitment in process. Office of Research and Development. Washington, DC: EPA.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix F: FY 2023 Title 42 Positions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Enhancing EPA Science Capability for a Complex Future: Recommendations for Use of Title 42 Special Hiring Authority. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27440.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix F: FY 2023 Title 42 Positions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Enhancing EPA Science Capability for a Complex Future: Recommendations for Use of Title 42 Special Hiring Authority. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27440.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix F: FY 2023 Title 42 Positions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Enhancing EPA Science Capability for a Complex Future: Recommendations for Use of Title 42 Special Hiring Authority. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27440.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix F: FY 2023 Title 42 Positions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Enhancing EPA Science Capability for a Complex Future: Recommendations for Use of Title 42 Special Hiring Authority. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27440.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix F: FY 2023 Title 42 Positions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Enhancing EPA Science Capability for a Complex Future: Recommendations for Use of Title 42 Special Hiring Authority. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/27440.
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